[NHCOLL-L:2448] Nisbet, Schorger, and Goel Back in Print

[Mary Donovan]

Blackburn Press would like to announce the reprinting of three classics of
wildlife management and biology literature.

 

Modelling Fluctuating Populations by R. M. Nisbet and W.S.C. Gurney (ISBN
1-930665-90-3)

 

So why reprint a 20-year-old book? The primary reason is that the book takes
a distinctive approach to population dynamics, by emphasizing from the
earliest chapters that all populations fluctuate continuously. Traditional
themes in theoretical ecology such as equilibrium and population stability
are linked to analyses of the response of a population to environmental
fluctuations and to extinction probabilities. The book confronts head-on one
common criticism of simple ecological models - the mismatch between the
mathematical mechanisms studied and the questions of top ecological concern.


 

"Modelling Fluctuating Populations is exceptional in more than one way and
provided me with an unexpected pleasure; I enjoyed almost all of the book
and found every chapter valuable." Nature

 

These and other wildlife titles are available at

http://www.blackburnpress.com/wilbiolandma.html

 

This book is available from Amazon.com at
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1930665903/qid%3D1097592477/sr%3D11-1
/ref%3Dsr%5F11%5F1/103-5361030-7659037

 

The Passenger Pigeon: Its History and Extinction by
<http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/index=books&field-autho
r=Schorger%2C%252520A.W./104-3949253-7620720> A.W. Schorger (ISBN
1-930665-96-2)

 

The passenger pigeon, once the most numerous bird on the planet, made its
home in the billion or so acres of primary forest that once covered North
America east of the Rocky Mountains. Population estimates from the 19th
century ranged from 1 billion to close to 4 billion birds. This may be the
only species for which the exact time of extinction is known. The last bird
died in 1914 at the Cincinnati Zoological Garden before any competent
ornithologists could write an account of the species.  A. W. Schorger
reconstructed the life history of the passenger pigeon. Through painstaking
research, he examined every aspect of the species - behavioral
characteristics, feeding methods, traveling and roosting habits, nesting -
and the various stages of the species encounter with man, from utilization
by Native Americans to extinction at the hands of white settlers.

 

"This really shocking book ought to be required reading for every thoughtful
citizen" Audubon Magazine

 

These and other wildlife titles are available at
http://www.blackburnpress.com/wilbiolandma.html

 

This book is available from Amazon.com at
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1930665962/qid%3D1097592540/sr%3D11-1
/ref%3Dsr%5F11%5F1/103-5361030-7659037

 

Stochastic Models in Biology by
<http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/index=books&field-autho
r=Goel%2C%252520Narendra%252520S./104-3949253-7620720> Narendra S. Goel and
<http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/index=books&field-autho
r=Richter-Dyn%2C%252520Nira/104-3949253-7620720> Nira Richter-Dyn (ISBN
1-930665-92-X)

 

This monograph, first published in 1974, is an attempt to demonstrate the
usefulness of the theory of stochastic processes in understanding biologic
phenomena at various levels of complexity - from the molecular to the
ecologic level. The modeling of biologic systems via stochastic processes
allows the incorporation of effects of secondary factors for which detailed
knowledge is missing.  In the first two chapters of the monograph, the
authors present the mathematical analysis used in the later chapters. In
later chapters, where models of various biologic phenomena are discussed,
introductory reviews of those phenomena are given for readers with less
biological background. 

 

These and other wildlife titles are available at 

http://www.blackburnpress.com/wilbiolandma.html

 

This book is available from Amazon.com at
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/193066592X/qid%3D1097592409/sr%3D11-1
/ref%3Dsr%5F11%5F1/103-5361030-7659037

 

The Blackburn Press is interested in hearing of other titles we might
consider returning to print. Your suggestions are welcome. Thank you.  

 

 

Mary S. Donovan

The Blackburn Press

Post Office Box 287

Caldwell, NJ 07006

Tel: 973-228-7588

Fax: 973-228-7276

E-mail: mdonovan at blackburnpress.com

Website: www.blackburnpress.com

 

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