1: The Basics
2: Some Details of Technique
3: Using the Model
4: Oviposition Behavior of Insect Parasitoids
5: Winter Survival Strategies
6: Avian Migration
7: Human Behavioral Ecology
8: Conservation Biology
9: Agroecology
10: Population-Level Models
11: Stochasticity, Uncertainty, and Information as a State
Variable
12: Measures of Fitness
Appendix: Programs Available at the OUP Web Site
References
Index
"Clark ... and Mangel ... offer, as its title implies, a
self-teaching introduction to the construction, testing, and
application of dynamic state variable models. These are highly
flexible individual optimization models of behavior involving
restraints and tradeoffs as they affect individual fitness. This
model approach employs the computational techniques of backward and
forward iteration to arrive at some understanding of a phenomenon
that cannot be studied
directly. The first three chapters cover the basics of developing
and using mechanistic dynamic state variable models. ... The
remaining nine chapters provide examples of the use of dynamic
state
variable models in a variety of contexts ... The book demands some
minimal proficiency in mathematics and skill in computer
programming. A useful reference and manual for ecology, behavioral
and conservation biology, and evolutionary ecology scientists.
Graduate students; faculty and researchers."--Choice
"Clark ... and Mangel ... offer, as its title implies, a
self-teaching introduction to the construction, testing, and
application of dynamic state variable models. These are highly
flexible individual optimization models of behavior involving
restraints and tradeoffs as they affect individual fitness. This
model approach employs the computational techniques of backward and
forward iteration to arrive at some understanding of a phenomenon
that cannot be studied
directly. The first three chapters cover the basics of developing
and using mechanistic dynamic state variable models. ... The
remaining nine chapters provide examples of the use of dynamic
state
variable models in a variety of contexts ... The book demands some
minimal proficiency in mathematics and skill in computer
programming. A useful reference and manual for ecology, behavioral
and conservation biology, and evolutionary ecology scientists.
Graduate students; faculty and researchers."--Choice
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