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| Document Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Robert Stephen Cantrell; Chris Cosner; Shigui Ruan |
| ISBN: | 9781420059854 1420059858 |
| OCLC Number: | 144226507 |
| Notes: | "A Chapman & Hall book." |
| Description: | xxii, 362 p., [4] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | Competition dynamics in a seasonally varying wetland -- Spatial dynamics of multitrophic communities -- Bistability dynamics in structured ecological models -- Modeling animal movement with diffusion -- Riverine landscapes: ecology for an alternative geometry -- Biological modeling with quiescent phases -- Spatial scale and population dynamics in advective media -- Using multivariate state-space models to study spatial structure and dynamics -- Incorporating the spatial configuration of the habitat into ecology and evolutionary biology -- Metapopulation perspectives on the evolution of species' niches -- Evolution of dispersal in heterogeneous landscapes -- Evolution of dispersal scale and shape in heterogeneous environments: a correlation equation approach -- Spatiotemporal dynamics of measles: synchrony and persistence in a disease metapopulation -- Rules of thumb for the control of vector-borne diseases in a spatial environment -- Modeling spatial spread of communicable diseases involving animal hosts -- Economically optimal management of a metapopulation -- Models of harvesting -- Spatial optimal control of renewable resource stocks. |
| Series Title: | Chapman and Hall/CRC mathematical & computational biology series. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Stephen Cantrell, Chris Cosner, Shigui Ruan. |
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Abstract:
Exploring the relationship between mathematics and ecology, this volume promotes the advancement of ecology as a truly quantitative science. It shows how various models, such as reaction- diffusion, multivariate state-space, and metapopulation models, are used in ecological applications.
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