Ecological orbits : how planets move and populations grow / Lev Ginzburg, Mark Colyvan.
"Most people assume that the dramatic failures in managing natural populations are due to human greed and shortsighted government policies. In their new book Ecological Orbits, Ginzburg and Colyvan suggest that the problem is not in ourselves, but rather in our theories about how populations be...
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2004.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. On earth as it is in the heavens
- 2. Does ecology have laws?
- 3. Equilibrium and accelerated death
- 4. The maternal effect hypothesis
- 5. Predator-prey interactions and the period of cycling
- 6. Inertial growth
- 7. Practical consequences
- 8. Shadows on the wall
- App. B. Essential features of the material effect model.