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Record Nr.

UNINA9910733710103321

Titolo

Dispersal, Individual Movement and Spatial Ecology : A Mathematical Perspective / / edited by Mark A. Lewis, Philip K. Maini, Sergei V. Petrovskii

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2013

ISBN

9783642354977

3642354971

Edizione

[1st ed. 2013.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XIV, 385 p. 96 illus., 49 illus. in color.)

Collana

Mathematical Biosciences Subseries, , 2524-6771 ; ; 2071

Disciplina

577.0151

Soggetti

Biomathematics

Applied mathematics

Engineering mathematics

Ecology

System theory

Mathematical models

Mathematical and Computational Biology

Applications of Mathematics

Theoretical Ecology/Statistics

Complex Systems

Mathematical Modeling and Industrial Mathematics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di contenuto

Part I: Individual Animal Movement -- 1. Stochas-tic optimal foraging theory -- 2. Levy or not? Analysing positional data from animal movement paths -- 3. Beyond optimal searching: Recent developments in the modelling of animal movement patterns as Levy walks -- Part II: From Individuals to Populations -- 4. The mathematical analysis of biological aggregation and dispersal: progress, problems and perspectives -- 5. Hybrid modelling of individual movement and collective behaviour -- 6. From individual movement rules to population level patterns: the case of central-place foragers -- 7.



Transport and anisotropic diffusion models for movement in oriented habitats -- 8. Incorporating complex foraging of zooplankton in models: role of micro- and mesoscale processes in macroscale patterns -- Part III: Populations, Communities and Ecosystems -- 9. Life on the move: modeling the effects of climate-driven range shifts with integrodifference equations -- 10. Control of competitive bioinvasion -- 11. Destruction and diversity: effects of habitat loss on ecological communities -- 12. Emergence and propagation of patterns in nonlocal reaction-diffusion equations arising in the theory of speciation -- 13. Numerical study of pest population size at various diffusion rates.

Sommario/riassunto

Dispersal of plants and animals is one of the most fascinating subjects in ecology. It has long been recognized as an important factor affecting ecosystem dynamics. Dispersal is apparently a phenomenon of biological origin; however, because of its complexity, it cannot be studied comprehensively by biological methods alone. Deeper insights into dispersal properties and implications require interdisciplinary approaches involving biologists, ecologists and mathematicians. The purpose of this book is to provide a forum for researches with different backgrounds and expertise and to ensure further advances in the study of dispersal and spatial ecology. This book is unique in its attempt to give an overview of dispersal studies across different spatial scales, such as the scale of individual movement, the population scale and the scale of communities and ecosystems. It is written by top-level experts in the field of dispersal modeling and covers a wide range of problems ranging from the identification of Levy walks in animal movement to the implications of dispersal on an evolutionary timescale.