'At last there is a cheap introductory book on animal population dynamics with a vertebrate bias!' Mammal Review '...a good introductory text and a useful source for the more experienced student or lecturer.' The Biologist

• Counting methods; evolution and population dynamics; the numerical analysis of population change; the natural limitation of animal numbers; the natural history of numbers; decision-making; time, space and chance.

'At last there is a cheap introductory book on animal population dynamics with a vertebrate bias!' Mammal Review '...a good introductory text and a useful source for the more experienced student or lecturer.' The Biologist

• Counting methods; evolution and population dynamics; the numerical analysis of population change; the natural limitation of animal numbers; the natural history of numbers; decision-making; time, space and chance.

'At last there is a cheap introductory book on animal population dynamics with a vertebrate bias!' Mammal Review '...a good introductory text and a useful source for the more experienced student or lecturer.' The Biologist

• Counting methods; evolution and population dynamics; the numerical analysis of population change; the natural limitation of animal numbers; the natural history of numbers; decision-making; time, space and chance.