Applied mathematical ecology /
Simon A. Levin, Thomas G. Hallam, Louis J. Gross (eds.)
- New York ; London : Springer Verlag, 1989.
- xiv, 491 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Biomathematics ; 18 .
Proceedings of the Second Autumn Course on Mathematical Ecology, held Nov.-Dec. 1986 at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste, Italy.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part I Introduction: Ecology in theory and application / Simon A. Levin -- Part II Resource Management: Bioeconomic modeling and resource management / Colin W. Clark -- Common property and the conservation of natural resources / Robert McKelvey -- Information and area-wide control in agricultural ecology / Marc Mangel -- Part III Epidemiology: Fundamental aspects of epidemiology: Three basic epidemiological models / Herbert W. Hethcote -- The population biology of parasitic helminths in animal populations / Andrew P. Dobson -- Simple versus complex epidemiological models / Joan L. Aron -- Periodicity in epidemiological models / Herbert W. Hethcote and Simon A. Levin -- Case studies: Rubella / Herbert W. Hethcote -- Influenza and some related mathematical models / Wei-min Liu and Simon A. Levin -- Review of recent models of HIV/AIDS transmission / Carlos Castillo-Chavez -- The transmission dynamics of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) / Robert M. May and Roy M. Anderson -- Part IV Ecotoxicology: Models in ecotoxicology: methodological aspects / Simon A. Levin -- Deterministic and statistical models of chemical fate in aquatic systems / Robert V. Thomann -- Effects of toxicants on aquatic populations / Thomas G. Hallam, Ray R. Lassiter and S.A.L.M. Kooijman -- Part V Demography and population biology: Mathematical models in plant biology: an overview / Louis J. Gross -- Stable population theory and applications / John Impagliazzo -- Stage structure models applied in evolutionary ecology / R. M. Nisbet, W. S. C. Gurney and J. A. J. Metz -- Some applications of structured models in population dynamics / Carlos Castillo-Chavez.