Structured-population models in marine, terrestrial, and freshwater systems / Shripad Tuljapurkar and Hal Caswell

I Theory and Methods -- 1 Structured-Population Models: Many Methods, a Few Basic Concepts. -- Matrix Methods for Population Analysis. -- Stochastic Matrix Models.- -- Delay-Differential Equations for Structured Populations. -- A Gentle Introduction to Physiologically Structured Population Models -- Nonlinear Matrix Equations and Population Dynamics.- II Applications. -- The Relative "Importance" of Life-History Stages to Population Growth: Prospective and Retrospective Analyses. -- Life-History Evolution and Extinction -- Population Dynamics of Tribolium -- Evolutionary Dynamics of Structured Populations. -- The Effect of Overlapping Generations and Population Structure on Gene-Frequency Clines. -- Dynamics of Populations with Density-Dependent Recruitment and Age Structure -- Models for Marine Ecosystems. -- Frequency Response of a Simple Food-Chain Model with Time-Delayed Recruitment: Implications for Abiotic-Biotic Coupling -- Stochastic Demography for Conservation Biology. -- Sensitivity Analysis of Structured-Population Models for Management and Conservation.- 17 Nonlinear Ergodic Theorems and Symmetric versus Asymmetric Competition.- -- The Evolution of Age-Structured Marriage Functions: It Takes Two to Tango. -- Inverse Problems and Structured-Population Dynamics -- Nonlinear Models of Structured Populations: Dynamic Consequences of Stage Structure and Discrete Sampling -- Multispecies Lottery Competition: A Diffusion Analysis. -- About the Authors.