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Record Nr.

UNINA9910300386903321

Autore

Méndez Vicenç

Titolo

Stochastic Foundations in Movement Ecology : Anomalous Diffusion, Front Propagation and Random Searches / / by Vicenç Méndez, Daniel Campos, Frederic Bartumeus

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2014

ISBN

3-642-39010-2

Edizione

[1st ed. 2014.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (320 p.)

Collana

Springer Series in Synergetics, , 0172-7389

Disciplina

519.62

Soggetti

Sociophysics

Econophysics

Ecology 

Biomathematics

Computational complexity

System theory

Data-driven Science, Modeling and Theory Building

Theoretical Ecology/Statistics

Genetics and Population Dynamics

Complexity

Complex Systems

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Elements of Probability Theory -- Introduction to Stochastic Processes -- Microscopic, Mesoscopic and Macroscopic Descriptions of Dispersal- Continuous-Time Random Walks and Anomalous Diffusion -- Reaction-Dispersal Models and Front Propagation -- Stochastic Optimal Foraging Theory -- Cell Motion and Chemotaxis -- Host-Pathogen Interactions -- Biological Invasions -- Random Search in Model Organisms.

Sommario/riassunto

This book presents the fundamental theory for non-standard diffusion problems in movement ecology. Lévy processes and anomalous diffusion have shown to be both powerful and useful tools for



qualitatively and quantitatively describing a wide variety of spatial population ecological phenomena and dynamics, such as invasion fronts and search strategies. Adopting a self-contained, textbook-style approach, the authors provide the elements of statistical physics and stochastic processes on which the modeling of movement ecology is based and systematically introduce the physical characterization of ecological processes at the microscopic, mesoscopic and macroscopic levels. The explicit definition of these levels and their interrelations is particularly suitable to coping with the broad spectrum of space and time scales involved in bio-ecological problems.   Including numerous exercises (with solutions), this text is aimed at graduate students and newcomers in this field at the interface of theoretical ecology, mathematical biology and physics.