TY - BOOK AU - Turchin,Peter TI - Quantitative analysis of movement SN - 9780878938476 U1 - 574.5248 PY - 1998/// CY - Sunderland, Mass. PB - Sinauer Associates KW - Spatial ecology KW - Population biology N1 - Included Index; 1. Why Study Movement? -- 2. Data for Measuring Movement -- 3. Modeling Movement -- 4. Building Behaviorally Based Models -- 5. Analysis of Movement Paths -- 6. Mass Mark-Recapture -- 7. Individual Mark-Recapture -- A. Diffusion for Ecologists N2 - 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 ER -