nobuy
CLCQ1
LanguageENG
PublishYear2009
publishCompany
Wiley
EISBN
9781444300956
PISBN
9781405188111
edition
1
- Contents
- Prologue
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Part 1 Preliminaries
- 1 What is mathematical ecology and why should we do it?
- 2 Mathematical toolbox
- Part 2 Populations
- 3 Homogeneous populations: exponential and geometric growth and decay
- 4 Age- and stage-structured linear models: relaxing the assumption of population homogeneity
- 5 Nonlinear models of single populations: the continuous time logistic model
- 6 Discrete logistic growth, oscillations, and chaos
- 7 Harvesting and the logistic model
- 8 Predators and their prey
- 9 Competition between two species, mutualism, and species invasions
- 10 Multispecies community and food web models
- Part 3 Ecosystems
- 11 Inorganic resources, mass balance, resource uptake, and resource use efficiency
- 12 Litter return, nutrient cycling, and ecosystem stability
- 13 Consumer regulation of nutrient cycling
- 14 Stoichiometry and linked element cycles
- Part 4 Populations and ecosystems in space and time
- 15 Transitions between populations and states in landscapes
- 16 Diffusion, advection, the spread of populations and resources, and the emergence of spatial patterns
- Appendix MatLab commands for equilibrium and stability analysis of multi-compartment models by solving the Jacobian and its eigenvalues
- References
- Index
Collected by
- Princeton University
- Yale University
- Harvard University
- Columbia University Library
- University of Chicago
