Elements of mathematical ecology /
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| Author / Creator: | Kot, Mark, 1956- |
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| Imprint: | New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001. |
| Description: | ix, 453 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4520983 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- I.. Unstructured Population Models
- A.. Single-species models
- 1. Exponential, logistic, and Gompertz growth
- 2. Harvest models: bifurcations and breakpoints
- 3. Stochastic birth and death processes
- 4. Discrete-time models
- 5. Delay models
- 6. Branching processes
- B.. Interacting populations
- 7. A classical predator-prey model
- 8. To cycle or not to cycle
- 9. Global bifurcations in predator-prey models
- 10. Chemostat models
- 11. Discrete-time predator-prey models
- 12. Competition models
- 13. Mutualism models
- C.. Dynamics of exploited populations
- 14. Harvest models and optimal control theory
- II.. Structured Population Models
- D.. Spatially structured models
- 15. Formulating spatially structured models
- 16. Spatial steady states: linear problems
- 17. Spatial steady states: nonlinear problems
- 18. Models of spread
- E.. Age-structured models
- 19. An overview of linear age-structured models
- 20. The Lotka integral equation
- 21. The difference equation
- 22. The Leslie matrix
- 23. The McKendrick-von Foerster PDE
- 24. Some simple nonlinear models
- F.. Sex-structured models
- 25. Two-sex models
- References
- Author index
- Subject index
