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Description: |
xvii, 403 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm. |
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Bibliography Note: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 385-393) and indexes. |
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Contents Note: |
Contents: Machine derived contents note: Preface -- A list of symbols and notation -- 1. Introductory remarks -- 2. Simple birth-death processes -- 3. General birth-death processes -- 4. Time-lag models of population growth -- 5. Competition processes -- 6. Predator-prey processes -- 7. Spatial predator-prey systems -- 8. Fluctuating environments -- 9. Spatial population dynamics -- 10. Epidemic processes -- 11. Linear and branching architectures -- References -- Author index -- Subject index. |
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Summary, Etc. Note: |
Review: "This volume aims to develop a unifying approach to population studies which emphasises the interplay between modelling and experimentation. The aim throughout is to provide biologists and mathematicians with a framework within which population dynamics can be fully explored and understood." "Deterministic and stochastic models are considered together; spatial effects are investigated by developing models which highlight the consequences that geographical restriction and species mobility may have on population development. Model-based simulations of processes are used to explore hitherto unforeseen features and thereby suggest further profitable lines of both experimentation and theoretical study. Most aspects of population dynamics are covered, including birth -- death and logistic processes, competition and predator -- prey relationships, chaos, reaction time-delays, fluctuating environments, spatial systems, velocities of spread, epidemics, and spatial branching structures. All of these topics are accessible to students and researchers in biology and mathematics alike. While the more theoretically orientated sections will appeal principally to mathematical biologists, the material is presented in such a way that readers with virtually no mathematical expertise can bypass these without losing the main flow of the text." "The volume is suitable for postgraduates and advanced undergraduates of biology (population dynamics) and mathematics (modelling and applied stochastic processes), and all research scientists with a professional interest in mathematical modelling of population dynamics. Book jacket."--BOOK JACKET. |
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Table of contents http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/cam032/90033653.html |