Stability in Model Populations: 31 (Monographs in Population Biology, 31) - Softcover

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Laurence D. Mueller is Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of California, Irvine. He has published extensively on stability, life-history evolution, and the evolution of aging. Amitabh Joshi is a Faculty Fellow in the Evolutionary and Organismal Biology Unit of the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research in Bangalore, India. His current research interests are in life-history evolution, the evolution of ecological specialization, the evolutionary genetics of circadian organization, and small population and metapopulation dynamics.

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"This is an extremely valuable book. It is unique in that it gives both a comprehensive survey of the theory of population growth dynamics and also the application of the theory to experimental populations. It must be read by anyone interested in this field, as well as the scholars themselves."--Timothy Prout, University of California-Davis

"Mueller and Joshi present an incredibly thorough and broad review of what is currently understood in the population ecology of single species, and their book will be on the reading list of most ecology graduate students. It is extremely well written and highly readable. It also presents an in-depth review of the three best studied insect laboratory organisms: Blowflies, Drosophilia, and Tribolium. The authors set an excellent example of how one may combine theoretically driven research with empirical methodology."--Pejman Rohani, Cambridge University

"This book is the first that I have seen which attempts to describe how the theory of population stability can be tested using controlled experiments. It makes a large contribution to the field and will be of great use to everyone who does research in population dynamics, no matter their individual approach or study system."--Graeme Ruxton, University of Glasgow