Stochastic Foundations in Movement Ecology Anomalous Diffusion, Front Propagation and Random Searches /

• Main Authors: Méndez, Vicenç (Author), Campos, Daniel (Author), Bartumeus, Frederic (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: Springer Series in Synergetics,
• Subjects: Physics.; Ecology.; System theory.; Biomathematics.; Sociophysics.; Econophysics.; Complexity, Computational.; Socio- and Econophysics, Population and Evolutionary Models.; Theoretical Ecology/Statistics.; Genetics and Population Dynamics.; Complexity.; Complex Systems.

This book presents the fundamental theory for non-standard diffusion problems in movement ecology. Lévy processes and anomalous diffusion have shown to be both powerful and useful tools for qualitatively and quantitatively describing a wide variety of spatial population ecological phenomena and dyna...

Table of Contents:

• Elements of Probability Theory
• Introduction to Stochastic Processes
• Microscopic, Mesoscopic and Macroscopic Descriptions of Dispersal- Continuous-Time Random Walks and Anomalous Diffusion
• Reaction-Dispersal Models and Front Propagation
• Stochastic Optimal Foraging Theory
• Cell Motion and Chemotaxis
• Host-Pathogen Interactions
• Biological Invasions
• Random Search in Model Organisms.