Integrodifference Equations in Spatial Ecology

• Main Author: Lutscher, Frithjof (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Interdisciplinary Applied Mathematics, 49
• Subjects: Mathematical physics.; Mathematics.; Community ecology, Biotic.; Mathematical models.; Mathematical Applications in the Physical Sciences.; Mathematics of Planet Earth.; Community & Population Ecology.; Mathematical Modeling and Industrial Mathematics.

This book is the first thorough introduction to and comprehensive treatment of the theory and applications of integrodifference equations in spatial ecology. Integrodifference equations are discrete-time continuous-space dynamical systems describing the spatio-temporal dynamics of one or more popula...

Table of Contents:

• Models for Spatial Population Dynamics
• Modeling with Integrodifference Equations
• Critical Patch-Size
• Positive Steady States
• The Speed of Spatial Spread
• Spatial Spread with Allee Effect
• Modeling the Dispersal Process
• Computational Aspects
• Dispersal Success
• Approximations for Spread
• The Shape of Spatial Spread
• Applications
• Structured Populations
• Two Interacting Populations
• Spatial Variation
• Temporal Variation
• Further Topics and Related Models. .