Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Preface -- ONE Elementary Population Dynamics -- Density Independence: The Exponential Equation -- Density Dependence -- The Logistic Equation -- The Yield-Density Relationship -- Density Dependence and Mortality: Thinning Laws -- Density Dependence in Discrete Time Models -- TWO Projection Matrices: Structured Models -- Elementary Age-Structured Population Projection Matrices -- Non-Age Structure: Stage Projection Matrices -- Eigenvectors, Reproductive Value, Sensitivity, and Elasticity -- Density Dependence in Structured Populations -- Density Dependence in a Simple Age-Structured Model -- Density Dependence in Size-Distributed Populations -- Density Dependence in a Stage-Structured Model -- Appendix: Basic Matrix Manipulations -- Matrix Multiplication -- Matrix Addition and Subtraction -- The Identity Matrix -- The Determinant of a Matrix -- THREE Applications of Simple Population Models -- Life History Analysis -- Investment in Survivorship versus Reproduction: The r-K Continuum -- The Cost of Reproduction -- Optimal Reproductive Schedules -- Applications of Population Projection Matrices -- The Dall's Mountain Sheep: A Static Life Table -- Palo de Mayo: A Dynamic Life Table -- Population Viability Analysis -- Demography of Invasive and Native Plant Populations -- FOUR A Closer Look at the "Dynamics" in Population Dynamics -- Intuitive Ideas of Equilibrium and Stability -- Eigenvalues: A Key Concept in Dynamic Analysis -- Basic Concepts of Equilibrium and Stability in One-Dimensional Maps -- The One-Dimensional Map -- Stability and Equilibrium in the Logistic Map -- Basins of Attraction in the Logistic Map -- Structural Stability -- Bifurcation Diagrams -- Concluding Remarks -- FIVE Patterns and Dynamics in Space -- The Poisson Distribution.

Point Pattern Analysis and the Question of Scale -- Mechanisms of Spatial Pattern Formation: Principles of Reaction/Diffusion -- Mechanisms of Spatial Pattern Formation: Biological Causes -- Metapopulations -- Assumptions of Metapopulation Models -- The Rescue Effect and Propagule Rain -- Appendix: Data for Exercises 5.2, 5.3, and 5.4 -- SIX Predator-Prey (Consumer-Resource) Interactions -- Predator-Prey Interactions: First Principles -- Density Dependence -- Functional Response -- Functional Response and Density Dependence Together -- Paradoxes in Applications of Predator-Prey Theory -- Predator-Prey Dynamics: A Graphical Approach -- Predator-Prey Interactions in Discrete Time -- SEVEN Disease Ecology -- Direct Disease Transmission -- Indirect Transmission -- EIGHT Competition -- Competition: First Principles -- Isocline Analysis of the Lotka-Volterra Competition Equations -- Niches and Competitive Coexistence and Exclusion -- The Competitive Production Principle: Applications of Competition Theory to Agriculture -- Resource Competition -- NINE Facilitation and Mutualism -- TEN What This Book Was About -- Glossary -- References -- Index.