Mathematical Ecology: An Introduction (Biomathematics, Band 17) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3642698905 ISBN 13: 9783642698903

Verlag: Springer, 2011

Inhaltsangabe

I. Introduction.- Ecology: An Idiosyncratic Overview.- II. Physiological and Behavioral Ecology.- Biophysical Ecology: An Introduction to Organism Response to Environment.- An Overview of Foraging Theory.- III. Population Ecology.- Population Dynamics in a Homogeneous Environment.- The Formulation of Age-Structure Models.- Analysis of Age-Structure Models.- Random Walk Models of Movement and Their Implications.- Stochastic Population Theory: Birth and Death Processes.- Stochastic Population Theory: Diffusion Processes.- IV. Communities and Ecosystems.- Community Dynamics in a Homogeneous Environment.- Interacting Age Structured Populations.- Population Models and Community Structure in Heterogeneous Environments.- Stochastic Community Theory: A Partially Guided Tour.- A Theoretical Basis for Modeling Element Cycling.- V. Applied Mathematical Ecology.- Bioeconomics and the Management of Renewable Resources.- Population Biology of Microparasitic Infections.- Author Index.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Springer
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 3642698905
• ISBN 13: 9783642698903
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 476
• Herausgeber: Hallam Thomas G., Levin Simon A.
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