Ecological Orbits : How Planets Move and Populations Grow.
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- 9780198037545
- 577.88
- QH352.G55
Intro -- Contents -- 1 On Earth as It Is in the Heavens -- 1.1 How Planets Move -- 1.2 How Populations Grow -- 1.3 Metaphors and the Language of Science -- 1.4 Inertial Population Growth -- 2 Does Ecology Have Laws? -- 2.1 Ecological Allometries -- 2.2 Kepler's Laws -- 2.3 What Is a Law of Nature? -- 2.4 Laws in Ecology -- 3 Equilibrium and Accelerated Death -- 3.1 Accelerated Death -- 3.2 Galileo and Falling Bodies -- 3.3 The Slobodkin Experiment -- 3.4 Falling Bodies and Dying Populations -- 3.5 The Meaning of Abundance Equilibrium -- 3.6 The Damuth Allometry -- 3.7 A Harder Question -- 4 The Maternal Effect Hypothesis -- 4.1 Inertial Growth and the Maternal Effect -- 4.2 The Missing Periods -- 4.3 The Calder Allometry -- 4.4 The Eigenperiod Hypothesis -- 4.5 What Can Be Done in the Laboratory -- 5 Predator-Prey Interactions and the Period of Cycling -- 5.1 An Alternative Limit Myth -- 5.2 Prey-Dependent versus Ratio-Dependent Models -- 5.3 The Fallacy of Instantism -- 5.4 Why Period Travels Bottom Up -- 5.5 Competing Views on Causes and Cyclicity -- 6 Inertial Growth -- 6.1 The Implicit Inertial-Growth Model -- 6.2 Parametric Specification -- 6.3 Malthusian Invariancy -- 6.4 What Is and What Is Not Analogous -- 7 Practical Consequences -- 7.1 Theoretical and Applied Ecology -- 7.2 Managing Inertial Populations -- 7.3 Rates of Evolution -- 7.4 Risk Analysis -- 7.5 The Moral -- 8 Shadows on the Wall -- 8.1 Plato's Cave -- 8.2 Evidence and Aesthetics -- 8.3 Overfitting -- 8.4 A Simplified Picture of Population Ecology -- Appendix A: Notes and Further Reading -- Appendix B: Essential Features of the Maternal Effect Model -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- Z.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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