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Addresses the ever increasing challenges of documenting population demographic changes and will serve as a bridge from introductory ecology to both applied and theoretical demography. It emphasizes the analysis of population data taken from a wide variety of organisms, including terrestrial and aquatic plants and animals found in habitats from equatorial rain forests to the arctic tundra.
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Introduction to life tables; projection from a life table; more ways of combining surviva and fecundity; life-cycle graphs; the Leslie matrix; transient behaviour in population growth; sensitivity analysis; stage-structured demography; size-structured demography; confidence intervals for E; growth functions for individuals; general functions describing survival; the size-structure of populations; macroparameters.
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