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Introduction to wildlife population growth rates / Richard M. Sibly, Jim Hone and Tim H. Clutton-Brock -- Population growth rate and its determinants: an overview / Richard M. Sibly and Jim Hone -- Demographic, mechanistic and density-dependent determinants of population growth rate: a case study in an avian predator / Jim Hone and Richard M. Sibly -- Estimating density dependence in the time-series of age-structured populations / R. Lande, S. Engen and B.-E. Sæther -- Pattern of variation in avian population growth rates / Bernt-Erik Sæther and Steinar Engen -- Determinants of human population growth / Wolfgang Lutz and Ren Qiang -- Two complementary paradigms for analysing population dynamics / Charles J. Krebs -- Complex numerical responses to top-down and bottom-up processes in vertebrate populations / A.R.E. Sinclair and Charles J. Krebs -- The numerical response: rate of increase and food limitation in herbivores and predators / Peter Bayliss and David Choquenot -- Populations in variable environments: the effect of variability in a species' primary resource / Stephen A. Davis, Roger P. Pech and Edward A. Catchpole -- Trophic interactions and population growth rates: describing patterns and identifying mechanisms / Peter J. Hudson [and others] -- Behavioural models of population growth rates: implications for conservation and prediction / William J. Sutherland and Ken Norris -- Comparative ungulate dynamics: the devil is in the detail / T.H. Clutton-Brock and T. Coulson -- Population growth rate as a basis for ecological risk assessment of toxic chemicals / Valery E. Forbes and Peter Calow -- Population growth rates: issues and an application / H. Charles J. Godfray and Mark Rees.

What determines where a species lives? And what determines its abundance? This book takes a fresh approach to some of the classic questions in ecology. Despite great progress in the twentieth century much more remains to be done before we can provide full answers to these questions. The methods described and deployed in this book point the way forward. The core message of the book is that the key insights come from understanding what determines population growth rate, and that application of this approach will make ecology a more predictive science. Topics covered include population regulation, density-dependence, the ecological niche, resource and interference competition, habitat fragmentation and the ecological effects of environmental stress, together with applications to conservation biology, wildlife management, human demography and ecotoxicology. After a substantial introduction by the editors the book brings together contributions from leading scientists from Australia, New Zealand, North America, Europe and the U.K.