Modelling Biological Populations in Space and Time (Cambridge Studies in Mathematical Biology) by Eric Renshaw

Cambridge Studies in Mathematical Biology

by Eric Renshaw

Emphasizing the interplay between modeling and experimentation, this volume aims to develop a unifying approach to population studies that will provide mathematicians and biologists with a framework within which population dynamics can be fully explored and understood.

Paperback

First published January 1, 1991

Reviews

[Alan · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is unbelievably cool because it uses actual data from landmark ecological experiments as examples of each stochastic model type. Like Huffaker's mites where you put two types of mites (one predator and one prey species) on oranges and depending on how many oranges you use, you can seem multiple population oscillations before the system crashes.

I could be learning the same mathematics from boring engineering texts about light-bulb failures and web-server statistics. I'll stick with birds and mites, thank you very much!