Stability and Complexity in Model Ecosystems
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Stability and Complexity in Model Ecosystems

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Stability and Complexity in Model Ecosystems

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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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Publisher
Princeton University Press
Year
2019
ISBN
9780691206912
Topic
Biowissenschaften
Subtopic
Biologie

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Preface
  6. Preface to the Second Edition
  7. Introduction to the Princeton Landmarks in Biology Edition
  8. 1. Introduction
  9. 2. Mathematical Models and Stability
  10. 3. Stability versus Complexity in Multispecies Models
  11. 4. Models with Few Species: Limit Cycles and Time Delays
  12. 5. Randomly Fluctuating Environments
  13. 6. Niche Overlap and Limiting Similarity
  14. 7. Speculations
  15. Appendices
  16. Afterthoughts for the Second Edition
  17. Bibliography to Afterthoughts
  18. Bibliography
  19. Author Index
  20. Subject Index