Modeling living systems : from cell to ecosystem /

• Main Author: Pavé, Alain (Biometrician)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Wiley, ISTE ; 2012.
• Series: Environmental engineering series (London, England)
• Subjects: Ecology > Mathematical models.; Biology > Mathematical models.; NATURE > Reference.; SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Biology.; SCIENCE > Life Sciences > General.; Electronic books.

Table of Contents:

• Methodology of modeling in biology and ecology
• Functional representations: construction and interpretation of mathematical models
• Growth models
• Population dynamics and genetics
• Models of the interaction between populations
• Compartmental models
• Complexity, scales, chaos, chance and other oddities
• Appendix 1: Differential equations
• Appendix 2: Recurrence equations
• Appendix 3: Fitting a model to experimental results
• Appendix 4: Introduction to stochastic processes
• Bibliography
• Index.