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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Mathematics (LNM, volume 2071)
Part of the book sub series: Mathematical Biosciences Subseries (LNMBIOS)
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Dispersal of plants and animals is one of the most fascinating subjects in ecology. It has long been recognized as an important factor affecting ecosystem dynamics. Dispersal is apparently a phenomenon of biological origin; however, because of its complexity, it cannot be studied comprehensively by biological methods alone. Deeper insights into dispersal properties and implications require interdisciplinary approaches involving biologists, ecologists and mathematicians. The purpose of this book is to provide a forum for researches with different backgrounds and expertise and to ensure further advances in the study of dispersal and spatial ecology. This book is unique in its attempt to give an overview of dispersal studies across different spatial scales, such as the scale of individual movement, the population scale and the scale of communities and ecosystems. It is written by top-level experts in the field of dispersal modeling and covers a wide range of problems ranging from the identification of Levy walks in animal movement to the implications of dispersal on an evolutionary timescale.
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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From Individuals to Populations
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Populations, Communities and Ecosystems
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Dispersal, Individual Movement and Spatial Ecology
Book Subtitle: A Mathematical Perspective
Editors: Mark A. Lewis, Philip K. Maini, Sergei V. Petrovskii
Series Title: Lecture Notes in Mathematics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35497-7
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Mathematics and Statistics, Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-35496-0Published: 05 April 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-35497-7Published: 21 March 2013
Series ISSN: 0075-8434
Series E-ISSN: 1617-9692
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 385
Number of Illustrations: 47 b/w illustrations, 49 illustrations in colour
Topics: Mathematical and Computational Biology, Applications of Mathematics, Theoretical Ecology/Statistics, Ecology, Complex Systems, Mathematical Modeling and Industrial Mathematics