Upon obtaining his doctorate in population ecology, Murdoch won a Guggenheim Fellowship that allowed him to undertake postdoctoral research at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor.
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Some of his research interests are theoretical biology, nonlinear population dynamics, chaos theory in population ecology, and the role of natural selection in population dynamics.
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Papers focus on population ecology, plant-animal interactions, ecosystem ecology, community ecology, global change ecology, conservation ecology, behavioral ecology and physiological ecology.
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Plant ecology can also be divided by levels of organization including plant ecophysiology, plant population ecology, community ecology, ecosystem ecology, landscape ecology and biosphere ecology.
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Nature long ago discarded the nonsense of carrying poisonous wastes and nutrients in the same vessels . " Ecologists use population ecology to model contaminants as competitors or predators.
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Phage population ecology considers issues of rates of phage population growth, but also phage-phage interactions as can occur when two or more phage adsorb an individual bacterium.
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In population ecology, debate over group selection was brief but vigorous; by 1970, most biologists agreed that natural selection was rarely effective above the level of individual organisms.
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From these basic mathematical principles the discipline of population ecology expands into a field of investigation that queries the demographics of real populations and tests these results against the statistical models.
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Hannan and Freeman ( " Population Ecology of Organizations ( 1977 ) ", American Journal of Sociology ) argue that organizations do not only adapt to an environment.
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This 1975 book demonstrates how Murdoch s general theories on population ecology and environmental science were starting to shape up and presents an opportunity for comparison to later works and perspectives.
