Natural regulation of animal populations.
By: Edited by Ian A. McLaren.
Edition: [1st ed.]
Publisher: Atherton Press
Published: 1971
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 195
Subjects: Animal populations
Notes: Includes bibliographies.
Table of contents: title: Introduction, by I. A. McLaren.; title: Meaning of density-dependence and related terms in population dynamics, by M. E. Solomon.; title: Is the density of animal populations regulated by mechanisms or by chance? By F. Schwerdtfeger.; title: Status of the idea that weather can control insect populations, by M. E. Solomon.; title: Regulation of animal numbers: a model counter-example, by H. S. Horn.; title: Effects of population density on growth rates of animal populations, by J. T. Tanner.; title: Endocrines, behavior, and population, by J. J. Christian and D. E. Davis.; title: Self-regulating systems in populations of animals, by V. C. Wynne-Edwards.; title: On group selection and Wynne-Edwards' hypothesis, by J. A. Wiens.; title: The natural selection of self-regulatory behavior in animal populations, by D. Chitty.; title: Population regulation and genetic feedback, by D. Pimentel.