Volterra-hamilton Models In The Ecology And Evolution Of Colonial Organisms
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Volterra-hamilton Models In The Ecology And Evolution Of Colonial Organisms

  1. 228 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Volterra-hamilton Models In The Ecology And Evolution Of Colonial Organisms

About this book

This book begins with the modeling of evolutionary constraints on morphological diversity in ecology and then extends to development and evolution. The authors have used tractable, traditional models and mathematics, and carefully linked traditional ecological equations with production and consumption. This book contains new, more powerful models and has applied them, for example, in chemical ecology of coral reef. The production space serves as an appropriate background space from which the environmentally induced curvature in the allometric relations of superorganisms such as siphonophores, polymorphic bryozoans and ants can be measured. Projective differential geometry is used to formula dynamical models of evolution by heterochrony and by symbiosis and a theory of stable and weakly chaotic production, important in ecology and in modeling the evolution of individuality is developed.

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Table of contents

  1. CONTENTS
  2. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  3. PROLOGUE
  4. CHAPTER I SIMPLE GROWTH OF POPULATIONS AND INDIVIDUALS
  5. CHAPTER II COMPETITIVE INTERACTIONS BETWEEN TWO SPECIES
  6. CHAPTER III MEDAWAR'S GROWTH ENERGY AND OPTIMAL PRODUCTION
  7. CHAPTER IV PREDATION AND HERBIVORY ON OPTIMALLY PRODUCING TERRESTRIAL AND MARINE ECOSYSTEMS
  8. CHAPTER V THE DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY OF PRODUCTION STABILITY
  9. CHAPTER VI A DYNAMICAL THEORY OF HETEROCHRONY: TIME-SEQUENCING CHANGES IN ECOLOGY, EVOLUTION AND DEVELOPMENT
  10. APPENDIX A ON THE FUNDAMENTAL LEMMA OF VARIATIONAL CALCULUS
  11. APPENDIX B FUZZY DIFFERENTIAL INCLUSIONS AS SUBSTITUTES FOR STOCHASTIC DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS IN POPULATION BIOLOGY
  12. APPENDIX C NORMAL COORDINATES AND LOG-BIOMASS
  13. REFERENCES
  14. SOME FREQUENTLY USED FORMULAS
  15. INDEX