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This outline shows how animals can be counted, how present patterns of abundance have evolved, and describes mechanisms underlying changes in animal abundance and the influence of man.
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Counting methods; evolution and population dynamics; the numerical analysis of population change; the natural limitation of animal numbers; the natural history of numbers; decision-making; time, space and chance.
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By: R Moss, A Watson and J Ollason
80 pages, Tabs, figs, graphs
'At last there is a cheap introductory book on animal population dynamics with a vertebrate bias!' Mammal Review '...a good introductory text and a useful source for the more experienced student or lecturer.' The Biologist