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Modelling Fluctuating Populations
R.M. Nisbet W.S.C. Gurney
One of the main aims of this book is to help reverse the increasing division of population biologists into those who possess mathematical self-confidence and those who do not. Thus it will enable readers of widely varying levels of mathematical sophistication to formulate, analyse, and interpret their own population models. The authors have provided a route through it which will be readily accessible to those whose mathematics does notjextend beyond simple calculus, while at the same timé including 'state-of-the-art' discussions of spatial inhomogeneities and stochastic modelling which will be<of interest to the expert.
The book lays strong emphasis\on formulating and testiogmodcls as well as on the mathematics used in their analysis. A major section is devoted to a series of detailed case studies, drawn from the authors' own research experience, in which the techniques described earlier aré seen at work in the solution... Tovább

Fülszöveg

Modelling Fluctuating Populations
R.M. Nisbet W.S.C. Gurney
One of the main aims of this book is to help reverse the increasing division of population biologists into those who possess mathematical self-confidence and those who do not. Thus it will enable readers of widely varying levels of mathematical sophistication to formulate, analyse, and interpret their own population models. The authors have provided a route through it which will be readily accessible to those whose mathematics does notjextend beyond simple calculus, while at the same timé including 'state-of-the-art' discussions of spatial inhomogeneities and stochastic modelling which will be<of interest to the expert.
The book lays strong emphasis\on formulating and testiogmodcls as well as on the mathematics used in their analysis. A major section is devoted to a series of detailed case studies, drawn from the authors' own research experience, in which the techniques described earlier aré seen at work in the solution of real scientific problems.
Professional population modellers, experimental population biologists who wish to start modelling, and final year students in life sciences will find this book invaluable.
CONTENTS
Part I: Deterministic Models
Single-species models
Single-species models with age structure
Models of interacting species
The effects of spatial heterogeneity
Part II: Stochastic Models —
Birth and death processes in a static environment Variable environments
Part III: Case Studies Oscillations in laboratory fly populations Chemostat populations of unicellular algae Predator-prey quasi-cycles in a patchy environment Vissza