Mathematical Ecology An Introduction

I. Introduction.- Ecology: An Idiosyncratic Overview.- II. Physiological and Behavioral Ecology.- Biophysical Ecology: An Introduction to Organism Response to Environment.- An Overview of Foraging Theory.- III. Population Ecology.- Population Dynamics in a Homogeneous Environment.- The Formulation of Age-Structure Models.- Analysis of Age-Structure Models.- Random Walk Models of Movement and Their Implications.- Stochastic Population Theory: Birth and Death Processes.- Stochastic Population Theory: Diffusion Processes.- IV. Communities and Ecosystems.- Community Dynamics in a Homogeneous Environment.- Interacting Age Structured Populations.- Population Models and Community Structure in Heterogeneous Environments.- Stochastic Community Theory: A Partially Guided Tour.- A Theoretical Basis for Modeling Element Cycling.- V. Applied Mathematical Ecology.- Bioeconomics and the Management of Renewable Resources.- Population Biology of Microparasitic Infections.- Author Index.