Marc Mangel

The Theoretical Biologist's Toolbox

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Produktbeschreibung

This textbook provides a no-nonsense introduction to the principles of theoretical and mathematical biology.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 390
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Juli 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 671g
• ISBN-13: 9780521537483
• ISBN-10: 0521537487
• Artikelnr.: 21834750

Autorenporträt

Marc Mangel is Professor of Mathematical Biology and Fellow of Stevenson College at the University of California, Santa Cruz campus.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Four examples and a metaphor
2. Topics from ordinary and partial differential equations
3. Probability and some statistics
4. The evolutionary ecology of parasitoids
5. The population biology of disease
6. An introduction to some of the problems of sustainable fisheries
7. The basics of stochastic population dynamics
8. Applications of stochastic population dynamics to ecology, evolution and biodemography.