Population ecology is the study of how and why groups of living organisms, such as animals or plants, interact and change over time in a particular area. It looks at factors like birth rates, death rates, competition for resources, and how these impact the size and behaviors of a population.
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Results and implications will be discussed within the context of animal cognition and communication, the evolutionary ecology of sex allocation, and the sensory and
population ecology of coral reefs.
The potential for reversal of the demographic transition follows directly from conventional theory
in population ecology and from the empirical relation we show here between energy consumption and fertility.
However, determining which species and which populations are in danger of declining or disappearing is not simple or straightforward, according to researcher David Miller, assistant professor of
wildlife population ecology, College of Agricultural Sciences.
Such models focus on changes in the distribution or extent of species» «climate space», but the broad range of climate - change - related stresses that
affect population ecology and physiology and that may have consequences at ecosystem and community levels [12] are not fully reflected.
It's a long story, but the summary is that this controversy marked a shift from relying on ecosystem ecology to support environmental claims, to instead
using population ecology (like models of striped bass populations) to make predictions of impacts.
He is currently conducting research projects on the behavioral and
population ecology of crayfish in local streams and research on octopus in the Bahamas.
A recent National Research Council (NRC) report concluded, for example, that advances in
turtle population ecology will come primarily from improvements in monitoring human impacts [16].
The amount of information now available about
the population ecology of kangaroos and their abundance has shifted the focus of opposition by animal rights groups and some conservation groups instead upon animal welfare issues (see Chapter 9).
Knowing a thing or two about
the population ecology of the northern spotted owl, I'd like to offer a few facts.
In order to explore and map potential roles for new genomic technologies in alleviating difficult conservation problems, Revive & Restore and Archipelago Consulting convened a workshop bringing together experts from wildlife biology, botany, island conservation,
population ecology, veterinary medicine, and pioneers of genomic engineering.
Since the timber industry is convinced that the USF&W and the academics it works with are lying about
the population ecology of the species (sounds like Exxon v. climate science, eh?)
«From a conservation perspective, we want to make more bees, not just redistribute them,» says Elizabeth Crone, a professor of
population ecology and dynamics at Tufts University in Massachusetts.
Techniques from statistical mechanics have been wedded to biogeochemistry and
population ecology, yielding new vegetation dynamic models.
He applies the science of
population ecology both to the conservation of rare species and the management of harvested populations.
Marine conservation and management; geospatial analysis;
population ecology; marine megafauna migration and movement ecology
ESM 211 - Applied Population Ecology [4 units] Kendall Examination of the application of
population ecology to conservation of rare species and management of harvested populations.
ESM 201 - Ecology of Managed Ecosystems [4 units] Tilman Principles of individual ecology,
population ecology, community ecology, and ecosystem ecology.