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Beeby & Brennan: First Ecology - Ecological Principles and Environmental Issues 3e

6. Ecological modelling

The variety of types and uses of ecological models

Case study 6a - Factors affecting the predictive power of ecological models

  1. Section 3.1 - basic types and names of models

  2. Section 3.2 - the simple mathematics single species population models

  3. Section 4.4 - predator-prey models... and their short-comings

  4. Section 3.3 - the variety of fisheries models

  5. Case study 3 - the detail needed to provide a functional model of a living resource


Modelling complex systems

Case study 6b - Defining the important interactions and important species in communities

  1. Section 9.1 - island biogeography theory and species-area models

  2. Box 5.3 - species assembly rules and the problems of predicting community structure

  3. Section 9.4 - models of complexity and ecological stability in species-rich and species-poor communities

  4. Section 8.2 - the effect of scale on ecological stability and how hierarchy theory suggests dealing with large-scale and large-number systems