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- First textbook style introduction to this emerging field
- Contains exercises and solutions
- Co-authored by leading researchers with complementary backgrounds
Part of the book series: Springer Series in Synergetics (SSSYN)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Theoretical Foundations
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Front Matter
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Stochastic Modelling for Dispersal and Movement
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Front Matter
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Selected Applications
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Back Matter
About this book
This book presents the fundamental theory for non-standard diffusion problems in movement ecology. Lévy processes and anomalous diffusion have shown to be both powerful and useful tools for qualitatively and quantitatively describing a wide variety of spatial population ecological phenomena and dynamics, such as invasion fronts and search strategies.
Adopting a self-contained, textbook-style approach, the authors provide the elements of statistical physics and stochastic processes on which the modeling of movement ecology is based and systematically introduce the physical characterization of ecological processes at the microscopic, mesoscopic and macroscopic levels. The explicit definition of these levels and their interrelations is particularly suitable to coping with the broad spectrum of space and time scales involved in bio-ecological problems.
Including numerous exercises (with solutions), this text is aimed at graduate students and newcomers in this field at the interface of theoretical ecology, mathematical biology and physics.
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“This book … attempts to provide an overview of the essential mathematical, physical and modelling aspects which describe the motion of living entities at various scales. … This book is interdisciplinary, intuitive and versatile, bridging a gap between mathematics and ecology in a pedagogically sound and scientifically relevant manner, from which a broad audience may benefit.” (Paul Georgescu, zbMATH, Vol. 1295, 2014)Authors and Affiliations
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Dept. de Fisica Grup de Fisica Estadistica, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Cerdanyola del Vallés (Bellaterra), Spain
Vicenç Méndez
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Dept. de Fisica Grup de Fisica Estadistica, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Cerdanyola del Vallès (Bellaterra), Spain
Daniel Campos
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Centre d`Estudis Avancats de Blanes, Blanes (Girona), Spain
Frederic Bartumeus
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Stochastic Foundations in Movement Ecology
Book Subtitle: Anomalous Diffusion, Front Propagation and Random Searches
Authors: Vicenç Méndez, Daniel Campos, Frederic Bartumeus
Series Title: Springer Series in Synergetics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39010-4
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-39009-8Published: 07 October 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-50868-8Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-39010-4Published: 18 September 2013
Series ISSN: 0172-7389
Series E-ISSN: 2198-333X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 310
Number of Illustrations: 68 b/w illustrations, 16 illustrations in colour
Topics: Data-driven Science, Modeling and Theory Building, Theoretical Ecology/Statistics, Genetics and Population Dynamics, Complexity, Complex Systems