Modeling Populations of Adaptive Individuals / / Bret C. Harvey, Steven F. Railsback.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2020 English
• VerfasserIn: Railsback, Steven F.,; Harvey, Bret C.,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Monographs in Population Biology ; 63
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (216 p.) :; 34 b/w illus.
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Acknowledgments --; 1. Adaptive Individuals and Population Ecology --; 2. Case Study: Modeling Trout Population Response to River Management --; 3. Introduction to State- and Prediction- Based Theory --; 4. A First Example: Forager Patch Selection --; 5. A Second Example: Vertical Migration and Reproductive Effort in Daphnia --; 6. Example Three: Temporal Patterns in Limpet Foraging --; 7. Example Four: Facultative Anadromy in Salmonid Fishes --; 8. Guidance for Using State- and Prediction- Based Theory --; 9. Testing and Refining State- and Prediction- Based Theory --; 10. Building Model Credibility --; 11. Empirical Research on Populations of Adaptive Individuals --; 12. Conclusions and Outlook --; References --; Index --; MONOGRAPHS IN POPULATION BIOLOGY
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780691195377; 9783110704716; 9783110704518; 9783110704808; 9783110704600; 9783110690088
• DOI: 10.1515/9780691195377?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Bret C. Harvey, Steven F. Railsback.

Ecologists now recognize that the dynamics of populations, communities, and ecosystems are strongly affected by adaptive individual behaviors. Yet until now, we have lacked effective and flexible methods for modeling such dynamics. Traditional ecological models become impractical with the inclusion of behavior, and the optimization approaches of behavioral ecology cannot be used when future conditions are unpredictable due to feedbacks from the behavior of other individuals. This book provides a comprehensive introduction to state- and prediction-based theory, or SPT, a powerful new approach to modeling trade-off behaviors in contexts such as individual-based population models where feedbacks and variability make optimization impossible.Modeling Populations of Adaptive Individuals features a wealth of examples that range from highly simplified behavior models to complex population models in which individuals make adaptive trade-off decisions about habitat and activity selection in highly heterogeneous environments. Steven Railsback and Bret Harvey explain how SPT builds on key concepts from the state-based dynamic modeling theory of behavioral ecology, and how it combines explicit predictions of future conditions with approximations of a fitness measure to represent how individuals make good-not optimal-decisions that they revise as conditions change. The resulting models are realistic, testable, adaptable, and invaluable for answering fundamental questions in ecology and forecasting ecological outcomes of real-world scenarios.