Introduction to Population Biology
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How do plant and animal populations change genetically to evolve and adapt to their local environments? How do populations grow and interact with one another through competition and predation? How does behaviour influence ecology and evolution? This second edition of Dick Neal's unique textbook on population biology addresses these questions and offers a comprehensive analysis of evolutionary theory in the areas of ecology, population genetics, and behaviour. Taking a quantitative and Darwinian perspective, Neal uses mathematical models to develop the…
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Key features
- Offers a quantitative and Darwinian perspective on population biology
- The book expressly links evolutionary processes with those of ecology
- The book is packed full of worked examples and problem sets with solutions
- Gives a broad treatment of the basic theory of natural selection, population genetics, population ecology and behavioural ecology
About the book
- DOI https://doi.org/10.1017/9781139107976
- Subjects Ecology and Conservation,Evolutionary Biology,Life Sciences
- Format: Paperback
- Publication date: 17 January 2019
- ISBN: 9781107605121
- Dimensions (mm): 246 x 189 mm
- Weight: 0.99kg
- Contains: 221 b/w illus. 4 maps
- Page extent: 460 pages
- Availability: Available
- Format: Digital
- Publication date: 12 December 2018
- ISBN: 9781139107976
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