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This chapter is a discussion of the factors that control the growth of populations of organisms.
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Environmental resistance: William T. Keeton and James L. Gould, Biological Science, 5th. ed., W. W. Norton and Company, New York, 1993.
Partitioning of resources: John L. Harper, Population Biology of Plants, Academic Press, New York, 1977.
Population ecology: Richard Brewer, The Science of Ecology, Saunders College Publishing, Ft. Worth, 2nd ed., 1988.
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Natural population control: H. N. Southern, J. Zool., Lond. vol. 162. pp. 197– 285, 1970.
A doomsday model: David A. Smith; “Human Population Growth: Stability or Explosion,” Mathematics Magazine, vol. 50, no. 4, Sept. 1977, pp. 186–197.
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Predator or prey: J. D. Murray, “Predator–Prey Models: Lotka–Volterra Systems,” Section 3.1 in Mathematical Biology, Springer-Verlag, 1990.
Linearization: Steven H. Strogatz, Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos, with Applications to Physics. Biology; Chemistry; and Engineering, Addison-Wesley Publishing Company. New York, 1994.
A matter of wolves: B. E. McLaren, R. O. Peterson, “Wolves, Moose and Tree Rings on Isle Royale,” Science, vol. 266, 1994, pp. 1555–1558.
Predator—prey with child care, cannibalism, and other models: J. M. A. Danby, Computing Applications to Differential Equations, Reston Publishing Company, Inc., Reston, VA, 1985.
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Yeargers, E.K., Shonkwiler, R.W., Herod, J.V. (1996). Interactions Between Organisms and Their Environment. In: An Introduction to the Mathematics of Biology: with Computer Algebra Models. Birkhäuser, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-1095-3_4
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