For ecologists who want a mathematical approach to describing ecological processes occurring in terrestrial ecosystems , or for those who want to improve their modeling skills I can highly recommend: Terrestrial Ecosystem Ecology Principles and Applications
- Göran I. Ågren, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences - Folke O. Andersson, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences It does a really good job of taking qualitative ecology and adding quantitative tools and descriptors. -Nick Rosenstock Full disclosure: I have worked with Dr Åhgren (and I think he's quite good and talented) Ågren GI, Andersson FO 2012. Terrestrial Ecosystem Ecology - Principles and Applications<http://www.cambridge.org/gb/knowledge/isbn/item6545308/?site_locale=en_GB>. Cambridge University Press. For discount, see http://www.cambridge.org/us/knowledge/discountpromotion/?site_locale=en_US&code=L2TEREE On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 1:06 PM, Frederic Barraquand < [email protected]> wrote: > Perhaps this one? > > Matthiopoulos, J. (2011). How to be a Quantitative Ecologist: The ’A to R’ > of > Green Mathematics and Statistics. Wiley. > > I found some chapters could be very useful for students with limited math > background. Coverage is also quite good. R-code included. > > Otherwise, I found that explanations in Gurney, W. & Nisbet, R. (1998). > Ecological dynamics are very good - but no statistics / zero stochastic > models in there. I wish there were more population dynamics textbook with > an emphasis on relating models to data. Royama 1992, Turchin 2003, and > Lande et al. 2003 do that to some extent, but this is more advanced > material. > > Fred > -- Post-doctoral Researcher: Wallander and Tunlid Labs Microbial Ecology Department of Ecology Lund University Ekologihuset, SE-223 62, Lund Sweden
