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Shripad Tuljapurkar
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Mountain View Research, Los Altos, USA
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Hal Caswell
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Biology Department, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, USA
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In the summer of 1993, twenty-six graduate and postdoctoral stu dents and fourteen lecturers converged on Cornell University for a summer school devoted to structured-population models. This school was one of a series to address concepts cutting across the traditional boundaries separating terrestrial, marine, and freshwa ter ecology. Earlier schools resulted in the books Patch Dynamics (S. A. Levin, T. M. Powell & J. H. Steele, eds., Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1993) and Ecological Time Series (T. M. Powell & J. H. Steele, eds., Chapman and Hall, New York, 1995); a book on food webs is in preparation. Models of population structure (differences among individuals due to age, size, developmental stage, spatial location, or genotype) have an important place in studies of all three kinds of ecosystem. In choosing the participants and lecturers for the school, we se lected for diversity-biologists who knew some mathematics and mathematicians who knew some biology, field biologists sobered by encounters with messy data and theoreticians intoxicated by the elegance of the underlying mathematics, people concerned with long-term evolutionary problems and people concerned with the acute crises of conservation biology. For four weeks, these perspec tives swirled in discussions that started in the lecture hall and carried on into the sweltering Ithaca night. Diversity mayor may not increase stability, but it surely makes things interesting.
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Table of contents (21 chapters)
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Theory and Methods
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- Hal Caswell, Roger M. Nisbet, André M. de Roos, Shripad Tuljapurkar
Pages 3-17
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Applications
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Front Matter
Pages 245-245
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- Carol Horvitz, Douglas W. Schemske, Hal Caswell
Pages 247-271
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- Jochen Kumm, Sido D. Mylius, Daniel Promislow
Pages 329-353
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- Oscar E. Gaggiotti, Carol E. Lee, Glenda M. Wardle
Pages 355-369
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- Bruce C. Monger, Janet M. Fischer, Brian A. Grantham, Vicki Medland, Bing Cai, Kevin Higgins
Pages 433-450
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- C. S. Nations, M. S. Boyce
Pages 451-469
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- Philip Dixon, Nancy Friday, Put Ang, Selina Heppell, Mrigesh Kshatriya
Pages 471-513
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Editors and Affiliations
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Mountain View Research, Los Altos, USA
Shripad Tuljapurkar
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Biology Department, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, USA
Hal Caswell