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William W. Murdoch
Researcher at University of California, Santa Barbara
Publications - 103
Citations - 13342
William W. Murdoch is an academic researcher from University of California, Santa Barbara. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Aphytis melinus. The author has an hindex of 58, co-authored 103 publications receiving 12791 citations. Previous affiliations of William W. Murdoch include University of California, Berkeley.
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Environmental impact assessment: "pseudoreplication" in time?'
TL;DR: An appropriate sampling scheme designed to detect the effect of the discharge upon this underlying mean of the underlying probabilistic "process" that produces the abundance, rather than the actual abundance itself is described.
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Switching in General Predators: Experiments on Predator Specificity and Stability of Prey Populations
TL;DR: From a number of experiments it was concluded that in the weak—preference case no switch would occur in nature except where there is an opportunity for predators to become trained to the abundant species, and a patchy distribution of the abundant prey could provide this opportunity.
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Population regulation in theory and practice
TL;DR: Recent studies on a particularly well-regulated system - red scale and its controlling parasitoid, Aphytis melinus, are summarized, testing and failed to find evidence for eight hypotheses that might account for the system's stability, including spatial heterogeneity in attack rates, a refuge, and metapopulation dynamics.
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Biological Control in Theory and Practice
TL;DR: It is suggested that a stable pest equilibrium is neither a necessary nor a sufficient condition for control, and it is shown that satisfactory control in model systems is compatible with both local extinction of the pest and polyphagy in the natural enemy.
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Diversity and Pattern in Plants and Insects
TL;DR: Plant-sucking bugs (Homoptera) of several old fields were studied Because they form a dominant group of insect herbivores in these communities, and because their diversity might be expected to be closely tied to that of plants, correlations between plant and insect diversity were generally weak.