Recommended Reading
Exponential and Logistic Growth
Gause, G. F. 1934. The struggle for existence. Williams and Wilkins, Baltimore.
All you ever wanted to know about Paramecium competition. PDF DOWNLOAD
Scheffer, V. B. The rise and fall of a Reindeer herd. The Scientific Monthly 73(6)356-362.
Describes the fate of two small populations of reindeer introduced onto St. George and St. Paul islands, Privbilof Group, Alaska. PDF DOWNLOAD
The Introduction, Increase, and Crash of Reindeer on St. Matthew Island Author(s): David R. Klein Source: The Journal of Wildlife Management, Vol. 32, No. 2 (Apr., 1968), pp. 350-3
A more modern study of reindeer on St. Mathew island PDF DOWNLOAD
Abiotic Limits to Growth
McNab, B. K. 1973 Energetics and the distribution of vampires. Journal of mammalogy54: 131-144. PDF DOWNLOAD
Describes the remarkable correspondence between the species' distributional limits and the 10 degree minimum winter isotherm.
Competition.
Connell, J.H. 1961 The influence of intraspecific competition and other factors on the distribution of the barnacle Chthamalus stellatus. Ecology 42:710-723 PDF DOWNLOAD
This is the classic paper describing the Cthamalus removal experiments and demonstrating competitive exclusion.
Hutchinson, G. E. 1959. Homage to Santa Rosalia, or why are there so many kinds of animals? American Naturalist 93: 145-159 PDF DOWNLOAD
Niches, competitive exclusion and overlap, and species packing. One of the most influential ecology papers of all time.
Predation.
MacLulick, D. A. 1937. Fluctuations in the numbers of the varying hare (Lepus americanus). University of Toronto Studies, Biology Series, 43: 1-136
The classic....but see also:
Krebs, C. et. al. 2002 Cyclic dynamics of snowshoe hares on a small island in the Yukon. Canadian Journal of Zoology 80(8):1442-1450. PDF DOWNLOAD
Harvesting
Murton et. al. 1974. A study of wood-pigeon shooting: The exploitation of a natural population. Journal of Applied Ecology 11(1):61-81. PDF DOWNLOAD
Boyce et al. 199. Seasonal compensation of predation and harvesting. Oikos 87(3):419-426 PDF DOWNLOAD
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Density Dependence.
Skogland, T. 1985. The Effects of Density-Dependent Resource Limitations on the Demography of Wild Reindeer Author(s): Source: The Journal of Animal Ecology, Vol. 54, No. 2 (Jun., 1985), pp. 359-374
Invasive Species.
Howald, D et. al. (19 ) Invasive rodent eradication of Islands. Conservation Biology Volume 21, No. 5, 2007 PDF DOWNLOAD
Species Diversity
The Species-Accumulation Curve and Estimation of Species Richness
Ugland, K. I.; John S. Gray; Kari E. Ellingsen. 2003. The Journal of Animal Ecology, Vol. 72, No. 5. (Sep., 2003), pp. 888-897.
PDF DOWNLOADAll you want to know about calculating species accumulation curves.
Conservation Ecology
Wilkin T. A. et al. (2007) Edge Effects in the Great Tit: Analyses of Long-term Data with GIS Techniques. Conservation Biology Volume 21, No. 5, 2007.
PDF DOWNLOADModern, applied use of edge effects theory .