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Overview
For over sixty years, understanding the causes of multiannual cycles in animal populations has been a central issue in ecology. This book brings together ten of the leaders in this field to examine the major hypotheses and recent evidence in the field, and to establish that trophic interactions are an important factor in driving at least some of the major regular oscillations in animal populations that have long puzzled ecologists.
Synopsis
When the contributing biological scientists contend that the numerical dynamics of an ecological system are in large part the result of its structure, most ecologists would agree readily enough; but when they take the next step and apply that principle to population cycles, conversation is likely to turn either very cold or very hot. Rather than comparing their approach to others, this volume sets out recent evidence that supports it. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR