Contents
Foreword
Series Preface
Acknowledgments
Contributors
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Part 1. Concepts and Techniques
1. Introduction
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1.1 Dynamic Modeling for Marine Conservation
1.2 What Is Conservation Biology?
1.3 Why Marine Conservation?
1.4 What Is Dynamic Modeling?
1.5 Using Dynamic Modeling to Generate Consensus
1.6 Overview
1.7 Questions and Tasks
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Modeling in STELLA
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2.1 Basic Population Model
2.2 Closing a Model
2.3 STELLA's Numeric Solution Techniques
2.4 Sources of Model Errors
2.5 Guidelines for the Development
of a Dynamic Model
2.6 Questions and Tasks
Predator-Prey Dynamics
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3.1 Humpback Whales and Sand Lance
3.2 Sectors
3.3 Questions and Tasks
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