This book provides an introduction to the use of R to model ecological populations and their interactions.

Klappentext

Provides simple explanations of the important concepts in population and community ecology.

Provides R code throughout, to illustrate model development and analysis, as well as appendix introducing the R language.

Interweaves ecological content and code so that either stands alone.

Supplemental web site for additional code.

Inhalt

Single Species Populations.- Simple Density-independent Growth.- Density-independent Demography.- Density-dependent Growth.- Populations in Space.- Two-species Interactions.- Lotka-Volterra Interspecific Competition.- Enemy-Victim Interactions.- Special Topics.- An Introduction to Food Webs, and Lessons from Lotka-Volterra Models.- Multiple Basins of Attraction.- Competition, Colonization, and Temporal Niche Partitioning.- Community Composition and Diversity.