Autore	Dercole Fabio
Edizione	[Course Book]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Princeton, : Princeton University Press, c2008
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (352 p.)
Disciplina	576.8015118
Altri autori (Persone)	RinaldiS <1940-> (Sergio)
Collana	Princeton series in theoretical and computational biology
Soggetto topico	Evolution (Biology) - Mathematical models Population biology - Mathematical models
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-282-15847-3 9786612158476 1-4008-2834-1
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1. Introduction to Evolutionary Processes -- Chapter 2. Modeling Approaches -- Chapter 3. The Canonical Equation of Adaptive Dynamics -- Chapter 4. Evolutionary Branching and the Origin of Diversity -- Chapter 5. Multiple Attractors and Cyclic Evolutionary Regimes -- Chapter 6. Catastrophes of Evolutionary Regimes -- Chapter 7. Branching-Extinction Evolutionary Cycles -- Chapter 8. Demographic Bistability and Evolutionary Reversals -- Chapter 9. Slow-Fast Populations Dynamics and Evolutionary Ridges -- Chapter 10. The First Example of Evolutionary Chaos -- Appendix A. Second-order Dynamical Systems and Their Bifurcations -- Appendix B. The Invasion Implies Substitution Theorem -- Appendix C. The Probability of Escaping Accidental Extinction -- Appendix D. The Branching Conditions -- Bibliography -- Index
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Pubbl/distr/stampa	Amsterdam, : Boston, : Academic Press, c2003
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (241 p.)
Disciplina	577/.01/5118
Altri autori (Persone)	CushingJ. M <1942-> (Jim Michael)
Collana	Academic Press theoretical ecology series
Soggetto topico	Ecology - Mathematical models Population biology - Mathematical models Chaotic behavior in systems Nonlinear theories
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-281-02713-8 9786611027131 0-08-052887-2
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Front Cover; Chaos in Ecology: Experimental Nonlinear Dynamics; Copyright Page; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Chapter 1. Introduction; 1.1 What Is Chaos?; 1.2 Bifurcations and Chaos; 1.3 The Hunt for Chaos; 1.4 Mathematical Models and Data; Chapter 2. Models; 2.1 The Deterministic LPA Model; 2.2 The Flour Beetle; 2.3 Dynamics of the LPA Model; 2.4 A Stochastic LPA Model; 2.5 Parameter Estimation; 2.6 Model Validation; 2.7 Predicted Dynamics; 2.8 Concluding Remarks; Chapter 3. Bifurcations; 3.1 A Bifurcation Experiment; 3.2 The Experimental Results; 3.3 Concluding Remarks; Chapter 4. Chaos 4.1 A Route-to-Chaos4.2 Demographic Variability; 4.3 Analysis of the Experiment; 4.4 Concluding Remarks; Chapter 5. Patterns in Chaos; 5.1 Sensitivity to Initial Conditions; 5.2 Temporal Patterns; 5.3 Lattice Effects; 5.4 Concluding Remarks; Chapter 6. What We Learned; Bibliography; Appendix; A The Desharnais Experiment; B The Bifurcation Experiment; C The Chaos Experiment; Index
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Pubbl/distr/stampa	Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, c2000
Descrizione fisica	xii, 225 p. : ill. ; 25 cm
Disciplina	577.8805118
Altri autori (Persone)	Perry, Joe N. Smith, Robert H.
Collana	Population and community biology series ; 27
Soggetto topico	Population biology - Mathematical models Time-series analysis
ISBN	0412796902
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Record Nr.	UNISALENTO-991003416999707536

Autore	Waltman, Paul E.
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Philadelphia, Pa. : Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, 1983
Descrizione fisica	v, 77 p. : ill. ; 25 cm
Disciplina	577.8
Collana	CBMS-NSF Regional conference series in applied mathematics ; 45
Soggetto topico	Competition (Biology) - Mathematical models Population biology - Mathematical models
ISBN	0898711886
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Record Nr.	UNISALENTO-991003450489707536

Pubbl/distr/stampa	Singapore ; ; Hackensack, NJ, : World Scientific, c2007
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (257 p.)
Disciplina	577.8/8
Altri autori (Persone)	BlasiusBernd KurthsJ <1953-> (Jürgen) StoneLewi
Collana	World Scientific lecture notes in complex systems
Soggetto topico	Population biology - Mathematical models Ecology - Mathematical models Epidemiology - Mathematical models Genetics - Mathematical models
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-281-91178-X 9786611911782 981-277-158-1
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Contents; Preface; References; 1. Chaotic dynamics in food web systems; 1.1. Introduction; 1.2. Food web model formulation; 1.3. Detecting and quantifying chaotic dynamics in model food webs; 1.4. Dynamical patterns in food webs; 1.5. Chaos in real food webs and conclusion; References; 2. Generalized models ; 2.1. Introduction; 2.2. The basic idea of generalized models; 2.3. Example: A general predator-prey system; 2.4. Additional difficulties in complex models; 2.5. A generalized spatial model; 2.6. Local stability in small and intermediate models; 2.7. Some results on global dynamics 2.8. Numerical investigation of complex networks2.9. Discussion; References; 3. Dynamics of plant communities in drylands ; 3.1. Introduction; 3.2. Model for dryland water-vegetation systems; 3.3. Landscape states; 3.3.1. Mapping the landscape states along aridity gradients; 3.3.2. Coexistence of landscape states and state transitions; 3.3.3. Landscape states and aridity classes; 3.4. Plants as ecosystem engineers; 3.4.1. Facilitation vs. resilience; 3.4.2. Facilitation vs. competition; 3.5. Species richness: Pattern formation aspects; 3.5.1. The niche concept and the niche map 3.5.2. Landscape diversity3.5.3. Environmental changes; 3.6. Conclusion; Acknowledgments; References; 4. Metapopulation dynamics and the evolution of dispersal ; 4.1. Introduction; 4.1.1. What is a metapopulation?; 4.1.2. Levins metapopulation model; 4.2. Metapopulation ecology in different models; 4.2.1. Local dynamics; 4.2.2. Finite number of patches with the Ricker model; 4.2.3. Infinite number of patches; 4.2.3.1. Model presentation; 4.2.3.2. Resident equilibrium; 4.3. Adaptive dynamics; 4.3.1. Invasion fitness; 4.3.2. Pairwise Invasibility Plots (PIP); 4.4. Evolution of dispersal 4.4.1. Finite number of patches4.4.1.1. Fitness; 4.4.1.2. Fixed-point attractor; 4.4.1.3. Cyclic orbits; 4.4.2. Infinite number of patches; 4.4.2.1. Invasion fitness for the mutant; 4.4.2.2. Results; 4.4.3. Local growth with an Allee effect can result in evolu- tionary suicide; 4.4.3.1. Local population growth with an Allee effect; 4.4.3.2. Allee effect in the metapopulation model; 4.4.3.3. Bifurcation to evolutionary suicide; 4.4.3.4. Theory of evolutionary suicide; 4.5. Summary; References; 5. The scaling law of human travel - A message from; References 6. Multiplicative processes in social systems 6.1. Introduction; 6.2. Models for Zipf's law in language; 6.3. City sizes and the distribution of languages; 6.4. Family names; 6.4.1. The effects of mortality; 6.4.2. The distribution of given names; 6.5. Conclusion; Acknowledgments; References; 7. Criticality in epidemiology ; 7.1. Introduction; 7.2. Simple epidemic models showing criticality; 7.2.1. The SIS epidemic; 7.2.2. Solution of the SIS system shows criticality; 7.2.3. The spatial SIS epidemic; 7.2.4. Dynamics for the spatial mean; 7.2.5. Moment equations; 7.2.6. Mean field behavior 7.3. Accidental pathogens: the meningococcus
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