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

• Autore: Méndez Vicenç
• Pubblicazione: Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2014
• Edizione: 1st ed. 2014.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (320 p.)
• Disciplina: 519.62
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Persona (resp. second.): CamposDaniel; BartumeusFrederic
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Stochastic Foundations in Movement Ecology
• ISBN: 3-642-39010-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910300386903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Springer Series in Synergetics, . 0172-7389