Ecological and Evolutionary Modelling

• Main Authors: Hui, Cang (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Landi, Pietro (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Minoarivelo, Henintsoa Onivola (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Ramanantoanina, Andriamihaja (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Ecology,
• Subjects: Ecology .; Evolutionary biology.; Biomathematics.; Biodiversity.; Community ecology, Biotic.; Game theory.; Theoretical Ecology/Statistics.; Evolutionary Biology.; Genetics and Population Dynamics.; Community & Population Ecology.; Game Theory, Economics, Social and Behav. Sciences.

Ecology studies biodiversity in its variety and complexity. It describes how species distribute and perform in response to environmental changes. Ecological processes and structures are highly complex and adaptive. In order to quantify emerging ecological patterns and investigate their hidden mechan...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• 1. Biodiversity1.1. Introduction
• 1.2. Aggregation
• 1.3. Entropy
• 1.4. Coexistence
• 1.5. Co-occurrence
• 1.6. Species turnover
• 1.7. Scaling
• 2. Evolution
• 2.1. Introduction
• 2.2. Phylogeny
• 2.3. Optimality
• 2.4. Game theory
• 2.5. Adaptive dynamics
• 2.6. Evolutionary branching
• 3. Networks
• 3.1. Introduction
• 3.2. Network architecture
• 3.3. Network stability
• 3.4. Complexity-stability relationship
• 3.5. Interaction switching
• 3.6. Coevolutionary networks
• 4. Spread
• 4.1.Introduction
• 4.2. Random walks
• 4.3. Metapopulations
• 4.4. Landscape demography
• 4.5. Dispersal kernels
• 4.6. Species distribution models
• References
• Index.