Mathematical Ecology
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PREFACE
PART I PHYSIOLOGICAL AND EVOLUTIONARY APPROACHES
The Von Bertalanffy Growth Rate as a Function of Physiological Paramters
Limits of Hyperbolic Growth and Selection in Molecular and Biological Populations
ESS in Habitat Selection in Structured Populations and in Ecological Communities (I)
Avoidable Mortality in Life-History Theory
PART II PLANT AND PLANT-INSECT SYSTEMS
Models for Aggregating Populations
Plant-Herbivore Systems
Extraordinary Latitudinal Gradients in Species- Richness - One Explanation
Incomplete Data in Ecological Studies: the Problem of Truncation with Mixing
An Objective Method for the Determination of an Effective and Efficient Plot Size in Vegatational Sampling
PART III AQUATIC SYSTEMS
Nutrient Recycling and System Resilience in a Model of an Experimental Aquatic System
Modeling and Management for Seawater Fishponds
Transient Spatial Patterns in Plankton Communities: Blooms and Travelling Waves of Phytoplankton in Estuaries
Biological Vortex Rings: Fertilization and Dispersal of Fish Eggs
Mathematical Modeling in a Sewage Outfall Design
PART IV EPIDEMIOLOGY
Cross-Immunity in the Dynamics of Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Populations
Global Stability Results for a Multigroup SIR Epidemic Model
Dynamics of Parasitic Infections and of Sexually Transmitted Diseases
PART V RESOURCE MANAGEMENT AND OTHER APPLICATIONS
Specialists and Generalists in the Fishery: Implications of an Ecological-Economic Analogy
Models for Cooperation and Conspiracy in Fisheries: Fishing Mortality Patterns
The Conservation and Maintenance of Valuable Resources: Optimal Expenditure Strategies
Discrete Nonlinear Harvesting Models and their Application to Forest Stand Management
Population Dynamics in Harshly Varying Environments: Evolutionary, Ecological and Medical Aspects
Mixture Approach to Clustering
PART VI ANALYSIS OF POPULATION MODELS
The Allee Effect in Age-Structured Population Dynamics
Some More Results in Young Predation
Modeling and Estimation in Size Structured Population Models
On Ergodic Non-Homogeneous Finite First-Order Markov Chains and Their Demographic Applications
Density-Dependent Markov Branching Processes
Numerical Solution of a Population Model with Harvesting in a Random Environment
PART VII ANALYSIS OF COMMUNITY MODELS
Models of Community Assembly and the Structure of Ecological Landscapes
Coexistence and Survival of Invading Species
Boundedness in Persistently Disturbed Systems Via the “Second Method” of Liapunov
Saturated Equilibria, Permanence, and Stability for Ecological Systems
Permanence of Some Four-Species Prey-Predator Systems with Lotka-Volterra Dynamics
Communities with Interference Competition: Direct and Indirect Effects of Predation on their Structures
A Connection Matrix Approach Illustrated by Means of a Predator-Prey Model Involving Group Defense
Oscillations in Segregation of Competing Populations
The Time Optimal Control Theory of Functional Differential Equations Applicable to Mathematical Ecology
Relative Persistence for Stochastic Population Models: Finite Sample Boundedness
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS