Mathematical Ecology - Proceedings Of The Autumn Course Research Seminars International Ctr For Theoretical Physics

Proceedings of the Autumn Course Research Seminars International Centre for Theoretical Physics

Thomas G Hallam, L J Gross, S A Levin

• Publisher: World Scientific
• Year: 1988
• Print ISBN: 9789971505561, 9789971505561
• eBook ISBN: 9789814541961
• Topic: Biological Sciences
• Subtopic: Science General
• Index: Biological Sciences

Contents:

• Physiological and Evolutionary Approaches:
  • The Von Bertalanffy Growth Rate as a Function of Physiological Paramters (S A L M Kooijman)
  • Limits of Hyperbolic Growth and Selection in Molecular and Biological Populations (E Szatkmary, M Kotsis & I Soheuring)
  • ESS in Habitat Selection in Structured Populations and in Ecological Communities (I) (D Cohen)
  • Avoidable Mortality in Life-History Theory (J A Leon)
• Plant and Plant-Insect Systems:
  • Models for Aggregating Populations (P Turchin)
  • Plant-Herbivore Systems (L Edelstein-Keshet)
  • Extraordinary Latitudinal Gradients in Species-Richness - One Explanation (P Kindlmann)
  • Incomplete Data in Ecological Studies: the Problem of Truncation with Mixing (A P Gore & S A Paranjpe)
  • An Objective Method for the Determination of an Effective and Efficient Plot Size in Vegatational Sampling (S S Shaukat)
• Aquatic Systems:
  • Nutrient Recycling and System Resilience in a Model of an Experimental Aquatic System (D L DeAngelis)
  • Modeling and Management for Seawater Fishponds (S Ellner, M D Krom & F Brauer)
  • Transient Spatial Patterns in Plankton Communities: Blooms and Travelling Waves of Phytoplankton in Estuaries (T M Powell, S Wilmott, J D Murray & V S Manoranjan)
  • Biological Vortex Rings: Fertilization and Dispersal of Fish Eggs (A Okubo)
  • Mathematical Modeling in a Sewage Outfall Design (H L Koh)
• Epidemiology:
  • Cross-Immunity in the Dynamics of Homogeneous and Heterogeneous
  • Populations (C Castillo-Chavez, H W Hethoote, V Andreas en, S A Levin & W-m Liu)
  • Global Stability Results for a Multigroup SIR Epidemic Model (E Beretta & V Capasso)
  • Dynamics of Parasitic Infections and of Sexually Transmitted Diseases (K P Hadeler)
• Resource Management and Other Applications:
  • Specialists and Generalists in the Fishery: Implications of an Ecological-
  • Economic Analogy (R MoKelvey)
  • Models for Cooperation and Conspiracy in Fisheries: Fishing Mortality Patterns (G N white III)
  • The Conservation and Maintenance of Valuable Resources: Optimal Expenditure Strategies (R H Lamberson)
  • Discrete Nonlinear Harvesting Models and their Application to Forest Stand Management (W M Getz & R G Haight)
  • Population Dynamics in Harshly Varying Environments: Evolutionary, Ecological and Medical Aspects (Z Agur)
  • Mixture Approach to Clustering (S Ganesalingam)
• Analysis of Population Models:
  • The Allee Effect in Age-Structured Population Dynamics (J M Cashing)
  • Some More Results in Young Predation (M Saleem & R K Pandey)
  • Modeling and Estimation in Size Structured Population Models (H T Banks, L W Botsford, F Kappel & C Wang)
  • On Ergodic Non-Homogeneous Finite First-Order Markov Chains and Their Demographic Applications (F K Atsem)
  • Density-Dependent Markov Branching Processes (P R Parthasarathy)
  • Numerical Solution of a Population Model with Harvesting in a Random Environment (G W Harrison)
• Analysis of Community Models:
  • Models of Community Assembly and the Structure of Ecological Landscapes (J A Drake)
  • Coexistence and Survival of Invading Species (F Brauer)
  • Boundedness in Persistently Disturbed Systems via the "Second Method" of Liapunov (A B Xaba)
  • Saturated Equilibria, Permanence, and Stability for Ecological Systems (J Hofbauer)
  • Permanence of Some Four-Species Prey-Predator Systems with Lotka-Volterra Dynamics (G Kirlinger)
  • Communities with Interference Competition: Direct and Indirect Effects of Predation on their Structures (N Shigesada* K Kawasaki & E Teramotov)
  • A Connection Matrix Approach Illustrated by Means of a Predator-Prey Model Involving Group Defense (K Misohaikow & G S K Wolkowioz)
  • Oscillations in Segregation of Competing Populations (M Mimura, Y Kan-on & Y Nishiura)
  • The Time Optimal Control Theory of Functional Differential Equations Applicable to Mathematical Ecology (E N Chukwu)
  • Relative Persistence for Stochastic Population Models: Finite Sample Boundedness (T C Gard)

Readership: Mathematical ecologists & Theoretical biologists.

Table of contents

• Preface
• Table of Contents
• Part I Physiological and Evolutionary Approaches
• Part II Plant and Plant-insect Systems
• Part III Aquatic Systems
• Part IV Epidemiology
• Part V Resource Management and Other Applications
• Part VI Analysis of Population Models
• Part VII Analysis of Community Models
• List of Contributors