Mathematical Ecology

Introduction. POPULATION DYNAMICS. Birth and Death Processes. Density Dependent Population Growth. Population Growth with Age-Dependent Birth and Death Rates. I: The Discrete Time Model. Population Growth with Age-Dependent Birth and Death Rates. II: The Continuous Time Model. The Dynamics of Interacting Species. I: Two-Species Interaction. The Dynamics of Interacting Species. II: k-Species Interaction. SPATIAL PATTERNS IN ONE-SPECIES INTERACTION. Spatial Patterns and Their Representation by Discrete Distributions. The Measurement of Aggregation. The Pattern of Individuals in the Continuum. Studying Pattern by Distance Sampling. Patterns Resulting from Diffusion. The Patterns of Ecological Maps: Two-Phase Mosaics. SPATIAL RELATIONS OF TWO OR MORE SPECIES. Association between Pairs of Species. I: Individuals in Discrete Habitable Units. Association between Pairs of Species. II: Individuals in a Continuum. Segregation between Two Species. Segregation among Many Species: n-Phase Mosaics. Patterns in Zoned Communities. MANY-SPECIES POPULATIONS. Species-Abundance Relations. Ecological Diversity and Its Measurement. The Classification of Communities. The Ordination of Continuously Varying Communities. Canonical Variate Analysis and Multiple Discriminant Analysis. Bibliography. Author Index. Subject Index. Index of Organisms.Pielou, E. C. is the author of 'Mathematical Ecology', published 1977 under ISBN 9780471019930 and ISBN 0471019933.