• Discusses field and laboratory data to illustrate the fundamental laws of population ecology.
  
• Provides an overview of how population theory has developed.
  
• Explores single-species population growth and self-limitation; metapopulations; and a broad range of interspecific interactions including parasite-host, predator-prey, and plant-herbivore.
  
• Keeps the mathematics as simple as possible, using a careful step-by-step approach and including graphs and other visual aids to help understanding.

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