Quantitative Analysis of Movement: Measuring and Modeling Population Redistribution in Animals and Plants - Softcover

Turchin, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0878938478 ISBN 13: 9780878938476

Publisher: Sinauer Associates Inc, 1998

Synopsis

Describes and systematizes quantitative methods for analyzing and modeling movement in an ecological context. Written for researchers and students (with calculus and elementary differential equations background) who are interested in spatial ecology in connection with conservation biology, pest control, or fisheries. Case studies cover a wide range of organisms including plants (seed dispersal, spatial spread of clonal plants), many kinds of insects, and vertebrates. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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Please note that Quantitative Analysis of Movement has been reprinted in 2015 by Beresta Books

About the Author

Peter Turchin was trained as a theoretical biologist, but during the last fifteen years he has been working in the field of historical social science that he and his colleagues call Cliodynamics. His research interests lie at the intersection of sociocultural evolution, historical macrosociology, economic history and cliometrics, mathematical modeling of long-term social processes, and the construction and analysis of historical databases. More specifically, he investigates two broad and interrelated questions: what general mechanisms explain the collapse of historical empires? And how did large-scale states and empires evolve in the first place? What are the social forces that hold together huge human conglomerates, and under what conditions they fail? Turchin uses the theoretical framework of cultural multilevel selection to address these questions. Currently his main research effort is directed at coordinating SESHAT—a massive historical database of cultural evolution that will be used in empirical tests of theoretical predictions coming from various social evolution theories. Turchin has published c.200 articles in peer-reviewed journals, including >10 in Nature, Science, and PNAS. His publications are frequently cited and in 2004 he was desginated as “Highly cited researcher” by ISIHighlyCited.com. Turchin has authored five books. The most recent include Secular Cycles (with Sergey Nefedov, Princeton, 2009), War and Peace and War (Plume, 2005), and Historical Dynamics: Why States Rise and Fall (Princeton, 2003).

Edition details

• Publisher: Sinauer Associates Inc
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0878938478
• ISBN 13: 9780878938476
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 396