Hal Caswell is a Senior Scientist in the Biology Department at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, where he holds the Robert W. Morse Chair for Excellence in Oceanography. He earned a Ph.D. in Zoology in 1974 at Michigan State University. In addition to Matrix Population Models, Dr. Caswell is a coauthor (with S. Tuljapurkar) of Structured Population Models in Marine, Terrestrial and Freshwater Systems (Chapman and Hall, 1997). A former Guggenheim Fellow and a Fellow of AAAS, he has also served as Chairman of the Theoretical Ecology Section of the Ecological Society of America. Dr. Caswell's research interests include mathematical ecology, structured population models, stochastic models for spatial processes, conservation of marine mammals and seabirds, plant population ecology, ecotoxicology, and nonlinear dynamics in ecology.

• Preface Preface to the First Edition 1. Introduction 2. Age-classified Matrix Models 3. Stage-Classified Life Cycles 4. Stage-Classified Matrix Models 5. Events in the Life Cycle 6. Parameter Estimation 7. Analysis of the Life Cycle Graph 8. Structured Population Models 9. Sensitivity Analysis 10. Life Table Response Experiments 11. Evolutionary Demography 12. Statistical Inference 13. Periodic Environments 14. Environmental Stochasticity 15. Demographic Stochasticity 16. Density-Dependent Models 17. Two-Sex Models 18. Conservation and Management 19. Concluding Remarks Appendix: The Basics of Matrix Algebra Bibliography Copyright Permissions Index

For those with a taste for mathematical elegance and an interest in the full array of approaches available for modeling populations with complex life cycles, this book is a must.