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

Lewis, Mark A. (editor.). Maini, Philip K. (editor.). Petrovskii, Sergei V. (editor.). SpringerLink (Online service) (Added Author).

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  • ISBN: 9783642354977
  • Physical Description: XIV, 385 p. 96 illus., 49 illus. in color. online resource.
  • Publisher: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : 2013.
Subject: Mathematics.
Ecology.
Mathematics.
Mathematical and Computational Biology.
Applications of Mathematics.
Theoretical Ecology/Statistics.
Ecology.
Complex Systems.
Mathematical Modeling and Industrial Mathematics.

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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.

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