Populations in a Seasonal Environment

Most organisms live in a seasonal environment. During their life cycles, some species face seasons of cold and heat, aridity and abundant rainfall, migration and stable residence, breeding and nonbreeding. Populations grow and decline as supplies of materials essential to their survival wax and wane. Such qualitative truths as these flow obviously from field observations.


In this original monograph, Stephen Fretwell analyzes the highly complex interaction between a population and a regularl...