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Module Reading List

Population ecology textbooks and useful book chapters

Neal, D. (2019) Introduction to population biology. 2nd Ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press  

Rockwood, R.R. (2015) Introduction to population ecology 2nd Ed. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell

Begon, M., Howarth, R.W. & Townsend, C.R. (2014) Essentials of ecology 4th Ed. Oxford: Wiley

Allendorf, F.W., Luikart, G & Aitken, S.A. (2013). Conservation and the genetics of populations 2nd Ed. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell

Begon, M., Mortimer, M. & Thompson, D.J. (2009) Population ecology: a unified study of animals and plants 3rd Ed. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell

Morris, W.F. & Doag, D.F. (2003) Quantitative conservation biology: theory and practice of population viability analysis Sunderland MA: Sinauer Associates

Mills, L.S. (2012) Conservation of wildlife populations: demography, genetics, and management, 2nd Edition, Wiley-Blackwell

Courchamp, F., Berec, L & Gascoigne, J. (2008) Allee effects in ecology and conservation ISBN: 9780198570301 (alk. paper); 0198570309 (alk. paper). Oxford: Oxford University Press

May, R.M. & McLean, A.R. (2007) Theoretical ecology: principles and applications Oxford : Oxford University Press

Hanski, I. & Gilpin, M. (1997) Metapopulation biology: ecology, genetics, and evolution London: Academic Press

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General Techniques Books

These provide useful background information on how data used to study population dynamics can be obtained and analysed 

Sutherland, W.J. (2006) Ecological census techniques : a handbook 2nd Ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Henderson, P. & Southwood, T.R.E. (2016) Ecological methods. 4th Ed. Oxford: Wiley

This list was last updated on 15/07/2020