Stability and Complexity in Model Ecosystems / / Robert M May.

What makes populations stabilize? What makes them fluctuate? Are populations in complex ecosystems more stable than populations in simple ecosystems? In 1973, Robert May addressed these questions in this classic book. May investigated the mathematical roots of population dynamics and argued-counter...

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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2019]
©2001
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Princeton Landmarks in Biology ; 1
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Physical Description:1 online resource (304 p.)
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505 0 0 |t Frontmatter --   |t Contents --   |t Preface --   |t Preface to the Second Edition --   |t Introduction to the Princeton Landmarks in Biology Edition --   |t 1. Introduction --   |t 2. Mathematical Models and Stability --   |t 3. Stability versus Complexity in Multispecies Models --   |t 4. Models with Few Species: Limit Cycles and Time Delays --   |t 5. Randomly Fluctuating Environments --   |t 6. Niche Overlap and Limiting Similarity --   |t 7. Speculations --   |t Appendices --   |t Afterthoughts for the Second Edition --   |t BIBLIOGRAPHY TO AFTERTHOUGHTS --   |t Bibliography --   |t Author Index --   |t Subject Index 
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520 |a What makes populations stabilize? What makes them fluctuate? Are populations in complex ecosystems more stable than populations in simple ecosystems? In 1973, Robert May addressed these questions in this classic book. May investigated the mathematical roots of population dynamics and argued-counter to most current biological thinking-that complex ecosystems in themselves do not lead to population stability. Stability and Complexity in Model Ecosystems played a key role in introducing nonlinear mathematical models and the study of deterministic chaos into ecology, a role chronicled in James Gleick's book Chaos. In the quarter century since its first publication, the book's message has grown in power. Nonlinear models are now at the center of ecological thinking, and current threats to biodiversity have made questions about the role of ecosystem complexity more crucial than ever. In a new introduction, the author addresses some of the changes that have swept biology and the biological world since the book's first publication. 
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