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Books about Ecology
This page contains links to general population ecology web sites and
sites dealing with the population dynamics of individual species. There
are individual pages for:
- Predator-Prey Relationships.
- Competition.
- Mutualism and Commensalism.
 Population
Dynamics Models. Kim van der Linde. A wonderful site on population
dynamics models. You are presented with a simple screen and a series of
population models you can run including the logistic model, Lotka-Volterra
competition and predator-prey models, and the Nicholson-Bailey model.
Set values in the boxes, press run, and watch the results. Highly recommended.
Wildlife
Population Dynamics. Gary C. White. A wonderful set of lectures on
theoretical population dynamics in the form of a series of lectures in
Adobe Acrobat (pdf) form. The lectures cover basic population growth,
maximum sustained yield, stochastic models, predator-prey, herbivory,
age dependent models, and spatially structured models to name but a few
of the topics. Highly recommended.
Population
Ecology. Alexei Sharov, Virginia Tech. A tremendous web site on population
ecology. The site includes a series of lecture notes that represent an
online manual to the models, methods, and principles of population ecology.
The presentation is heavy on the theoretical aspects and perhaps a little
weak on empirical evidence. The topics of these notes run the gamut from
single population dynamics, to spatial distributions, and theoretical
models of population dynamics. The site also includes links to other ecology
sites on the web. Highly recommended.
Nonlinear
Population Dynamics. Robert Costantino et al. This site is a description
of a research program combining mathematical modeling and laboratory testing
of the models. Normally this site would be too technical to include, but
the editor of this page has a special fondness for stochastic difference
equation models of population fluctuations.
Population
Index. Population Index is a bibliography of papers published on human
population demography. Many of the methods and models used to study human
populations are also applied to plant and animal populations. Technical.
WWW-Server
for Ecological Modelling at the University of Kassel. An attempt to
provide a central database of different mathematical models used in ecology.
Technical.
Wildlife Ecology
Software Server. Robert Diehl and Ronald Larkin. A large compendium
of software applicable to different problems in ecology and wildlife ecology.
The software comes in either "zipped" versions of the programs,
or in some cases, the source code. Technical.
Envision
It! Workshop Handouts. Steve McKelvey. A series of handouts covering
the important mathematical models of population ecology. Recommended.
Gypsy Moth
Modelling Programs. U.S. Forest Service. Some population models are
highly idealized representations. Other models are large, complex, and
try to include as many of the factors affecting the dynamics of a population
as possible. These models are sometimes referred to as "systems models".
This is an example of the latter describing the infamous gypsy moth.
Introduction
to Population Ecology. Biology 315. Gordon A. Fox. An introduction
to the theoretical aspects of population ecology including density dependent
and density independent population growth.
Population
Dynamics. W. Daniel Edge, Oregon State University. An introduction
to the basic principles of population dynamics including a glossary of
terms.
Introduction
to Population Ecology. Edward B. Radcliffe, University of Minnesota.
An excellent introduction to population ecology. The site includes both
the theoretical underpinning of population dynamics as well as real-life
examples. Recommended.
Basic
Population Ecology. Neil A. White. A good, basic introduction to the
theoretical bases of population ecology.
Basic
Population Ecology. Neil A. White. An introduction to theoretical
population ecology.
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