"Complex Population Dynamics: Nonlinear Modeling in Ecology, Epidemiology and Genetics" ed. by Bernd Blasius, Jürgen Kurths, Lewi Stone
World Scientific Lecture Notes in Complex Systems – Vol. 7
World Scientific Publishing | 2007 | ISBN: 9812771573 9789812771575 | 257 pages | PDF | 12 MB
This book concerns the ubiquitous appearance of power-law distributions that have been unexpectedly observed in numerous biological contexts. This collection of review articles is devoted to the modeling of ecological, epidemiological and evolutionary systems.
Theoretical mathematical models are perhaps one of the most powerful approaches available for increasing our understanding of the complex population dynamics in these natural systems. The dynamics of populations as they interact in different types of networks is a subject area currently receiving considerable interest and pervades many areas of the nonlinear sciences. .
Brief Contents Preface
1. Chaotic dynamics in food web systems G. F. Fussmann
2. Generalized models T. Gross et al.
3. Dynamics of plant communities in drylands E. Meron and E. Gilad
4. Metapopulation dynamics and the evolution of dispersal K. Parvinen
5. The scaling law of human travel - A message from George D. Brockmann and L. Hufnagel
6. Multiplicative processes in social systems D. H. Zanette and S. C. Manrubia
7. Criticality in epidemiology N. Stollenwerk and V.A.A. Jansen
8. Network models in epidemiology A. L. Lloyd and S. Valeika
9. Genetic networks S. Bottani and A. Mazurie
Author Index
Subject Index
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