Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contents by Subject Area -- Contributors -- Guide to the Encyclopedia -- Preface -- A -- Adaptive Behavior and Vigilance -- Adaptive Dynamics -- Adaptive Landscapes -- Age Structure -- Allee Effects -- Allometry and Growth -- Apparent Competition -- Applied Ecology -- Assembly Processes -- B -- Bayesian Statistics -- Behavioral Ecology -- Belowground Processes -- Beverton-Holt Model -- Bifurcations -- Biogeochemistry and Nutrient Cycles -- Birth-Death Models -- Bottom-Up Control -- Branching Processes -- C -- Cannibalism -- Cellular Automata -- Chaos -- Coevolution -- Compartment Models -- Computational Ecology -- Conservation Biology -- Continental Scale Patterns -- Cooperation, Evolution of -- D -- Delay Differential Equations -- Demography -- Difference Equations -- Discounting in Bioeconomics -- Disease Dynamics -- Dispersal, Animal -- Dispersal, Evolution of -- Dispersal, Plant -- Diversity Measures -- Dynamic Programming -- E -- Ecological Economics -- Ecosystem Ecology -- Ecosystem Engineers -- Ecosystem Services -- Ecosystem Valuation -- Ecotoxicology -- Energy Budgets -- Environmental Heterogeneity and Plants -- Epidemiology and Epidemic Modeling -- Evolutionarily Stable Strategies -- Evolutionary Computation -- F -- Facilitation -- Fisheries Ecology -- Food Chains and Food Web Modules -- Food Webs -- Foraging Behavior -- Forest Simulators -- Frequentist Statistics -- Functional Traits of Species and Individuals -- G -- Game Theory -- Gap Analysis and Presence/Absence Models -- Gas and Energy Fluxes Across Landscapes -- Geographic Information Systems -- H -- Harvesting Theory -- Hydrodynamics -- I -- Individual-Based Ecology -- Information Criteria in Ecology -- Integrated Whole Organism Physiology -- Integrodifference Equations -- Invasion Biology -- L -- Landscape Ecology -- M.

Marine Reserves and Ecosystem-Based Management -- Markov Chains -- Mating Behavior -- Matrix Models -- Meta-Analysis -- Metabolic Theory of Ecology -- Metacommunities -- Metapopulations -- Microbial Communities -- Model Fitting -- Movement: From Individuals to Populations -- Mutation, Selection, and Genetic Drift -- N -- Networks, Ecological -- Neutral Community Ecology -- Niche Construction -- Niche Overlap -- Nicholson-Bailey Host Parasitoid Model -- Nondimensionalization -- NPZ Models -- O -- Ocean Circulation, Dynamics of -- Optimal Control Theory -- Ordinary Differential Equations -- P -- Pair Approximations -- Partial Differential Equations -- Phase Plane Analysis -- Phenotypic Plasticity -- Phylogenetic Reconstruction -- Phylogeography -- Plant Competition and Canopy Interactions -- Population Ecology -- Population Viability Analysis -- Predator-Prey Models -- Q -- Quantitative Genetics -- R -- Reaction-Diffusion Models -- Regime Shifts -- Reserve Selection and Conservation Prioritization -- Resilience and Stability -- Restoration Ecology -- Ricker Model -- S -- Sex, Evolution of -- Single-Species Population Models -- SIR Models -- Spatial Ecology -- Spatial Models, Stochastic -- Spatial Spread -- Species Ranges -- Stability Analysis -- Stage Structure -- Statistics in Ecology -- Stochasticity (Overview) -- Stochasticity, Demographic -- Stochasticity, Environmental -- Stoichiometry, Ecological -- Storage Effect -- Stress and Species Interactions -- Succession -- Synchrony, Spatial -- T -- Top-Down Control -- Transport in Individuals -- Two-Species Competition -- U -- Urban Ecology -- Glossary -- Index.