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Theories of Populations in Biological Communities

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Part of the book series: Ecological Studies (ECOLSTUD, volume 20)

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When we wrote this book it was, admittedly, flrst of all for the sake of our own enjoyment and enlightenment. We will, however, add our sincerely meant (but rather traditional) hope that it will prove interesting to graduate students, to colleagues and to anyone else, who will bother to read it. The book was written as a joint effort by a theoretically inclined population geneticist and an experimental ecologist who share opinions on what is interesting in the fleld of theoretical ecology. While we believe that qualifled natural history is of indisputable intrinsic value, we think that ecology is a natural science which should have a theoretical framework. On the other hand, theoretical ecology must draw its inspiration from nature and yield results which give insight into the flndings of the naturalist and inspire him to make new observations and experiments. Without this relationship between fleld biology and theory, matheยญ matical ecology may become a discipline totally divorced from biology and solve-albeit interesting-mathematical problems without signiflcance for ecology. Therefore, in addition to theoretical population biology (including some original models) the book also discusses observational data from nature to show how the theoretical models give new insight and how observations give rise to new theoretical thought. While no book on ecology could do without the mention of the hare-lynx example (and ours is, therefore, no exception) we have tried to bring new examples mainly derived from one of the authors' fleld of experience: microbial ecology and marine biology.

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Authors and Affiliations

  • Institute of Ecology and Genetics, University of Aarhus, Aarhus C, Denmark

    Feddy B. Christiansen, Tom M. Fenchel

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Theories of Populations in Biological Communities

  • Authors: Feddy B. Christiansen, Tom M. Fenchel

  • Series Title: Ecological Studies

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-66526-4

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin ยท Heidelberg 1977

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-66528-8Published: 06 January 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-66526-4Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0070-8356

  • Series E-ISSN: 2196-971X

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 144

  • Topics: Ecology

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