Acknowledgements .............................................. vii
Contributors ................................................... ix
1 Introduction ................................................. 1
Angela R. McLean and Robert M. May
2 How populations cohere: five rules for cooperation ........... 7
Martin A. Nowak and Karl Sigmund
3 Single-species dynamics ..................................... 17
Tim Coulson and H. Charles J. Godfray
4 Metapopulations and their spatial dynamics .................. 35
Sean Nee
5 Predator-prey interactions .................................. 46
Michael B. Bonsall and Michael P. Hassell
6 Plant population dynamics ................................... 62
Michael J. Crawley
7 Interspecific competition and multispecies coexistence ...... 84
David Tilman
8 Diversity and stability in ecological communities ........... 98
Anthony R. Ives
9 Communities: patterns ...................................... 111
Robert M. May, Michael J. Crawley, and George Sugihara
10 Dynamics of infectious disease ............................. 132
Bryan Grenfell and Matthew Keeling
11 Fisheries .................................................. 148
John R. Beddington and Geoffrey P. Kirkwood
12 A doubly Green Revolution: ecology and food production ..... 158
Gordon Conway
13 Conservation biology: unsolved problems and their policy
implications ............................................... 172
Andy Dobson, Will R. Turner, and David S. Wilcove
14 Climate change and conservation biology .................... 190
Jeremy T. Kerr and Heather M. Kharouba
15 Unanswered questions and why they matter ................... 205
Robert M. May
References .................................................... 216
Index ......................................................... 249
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