Modelling Biological Populations in Space and Time
Published on 26. July 1991
Book
Hardback
422 pages
978-0-521-30388-0 (ISBN)
Description
This volume develops a unifying approach to population studies, emphasising the interplay between modelling and experimentation. Throughout, mathematicians and biologists are provided with a framework within which population dynamics can be fully explored and understood. Aspects of population dynamics covered include 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. Both deterministic and stochastic models are considered. Whilst the more theoretically orientated sections will appeal to mathematical biologists, the material is presented so that readers with little mathematical expertise can bypass these without losing the main flow of the text.
Reviews / Votes
"...an excellent introduction to the world of deterministic and stochastic models for population growth, both for students of applied mathematics and statistics at the undergraduate and postgraduate level and for advanced students of theoretical biology." Andris Abakuks, Mathematical Reviews "An excellent reference for the class of mathematical models that it considers....The quality of the book is high....As an applied statistician with an interest--and some background--in the models discussed, I found the book easy to read, extremely useful, and its perspective sensible. It is well worth its price." Judy Zeh, Journal of the American Statistical AssociationMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 27 mm
Weight
720 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-521-30388-0 (9780521303880)
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Modelling Biological Populations in Space and Time
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08/1993
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Eric Renshaw
Modelling Biological Populations in Space and Time
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08/1993
Cambridge University Press
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Content
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.