Author : John C. Moore
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 47,45 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1107182115
This book presents new approaches to studying food webs, using practical and policy examples to demonstrate the theory behind ecosystem management decisions.
Author : Priscilla Mensah
Publisher : Springer
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 19,94 MB
Release : 2018-04-09
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 3319714864
This book, which contains a collection of review articles as well as focus on evidence-based policy making, will serve as a valuable resource not just for all postgraduate students conducting research using systems analysis thinking but also for policy makers. To our knowledge, a book of this nature which also has a strong African focus is currently not available. The book examines environmental and socio-economic risks with the aim of providing an analytical foundation for the management and governance of natural resources, disasters, addressing climate change, and easing the technological and ecological transitions to sustainability. It provides scientific and strategic analysis to better understand the dynamics of future energy transitions, their main driving forces, enabling factors, barriers, as well as their consequences for the social, economic and environmental dimensions of human wellbeing. Science-based policy advice is achieved through an integrated assessment and modeling of how to simultaneously address the major energy policy challenges in the areas of environment (climate change and air pollution), energy poverty (or access to affordable and clean energy for the poor), energy security and reliability. It also aims to improve our understanding of ecosystems and their management in today’s changing world—in particular, the current state of ecosystems, and their ecological thresholds and buffering capacities. It provides support for policy makers in developing rational, realistic and science-based regional, national and global strategies for the production of fuel, food and fibre that sustain ecosystem services and safeguard food security. Finally, it addresses the human development dimension of global change based on comprehensive studies on the changing size and composition of human populations around the world by analyzing both their impacts and the differential vulnerabilities by age, gender and level of education.
Author : Andrea Belgrano
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 33,32 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Science
ISBN : 0198564821
'Aquatic Food Webs' provides a current synthesis of theoretical and empirical food web research. The textbook is suitable for graduate level students as well as professional researchers in community, ecosystem, and theoretical ecology, in aquatic ecology, and in conservation biology.
Author : Peter C de Ruiter
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 32,18 MB
Release : 2005-12-20
Category : Science
ISBN : 0080460941
Dynamic Food Webs challenges us to rethink what factors may determine ecological and evolutionary pathways of food web development. It touches upon the intriguing idea that trophic interactions drive patterns and dynamics at different levels of biological organization: dynamics in species composition, dynamics in population life-history parameters and abundances, and dynamics in individual growth, size and behavior. These dynamics are shown to be strongly interrelated governing food web structure and stability and the role of populations and communities play in ecosystem functioning. Dynamic Food Webs not only offers over 100 illustrations, but also contains 8 riveting sections devoted to an understanding of how to manage the effects of environmental change, the protection of biological diversity and the sustainable use of natural resources. Dynamic Food Webs is a volume in the Theoretical Ecology series. - Relates dynamics on different levels of biological organization: individuals, populations, and communities - Deals with empirical and theoretical approaches - Discusses the role of community food webs in ecosystem functioning - Proposes methods to assess the effects of environmental change on the structure of biological communities and ecosystem functioning - Offers an analyses of the relationship between complexity and stability in food webs
Author : Thomas John Hossie
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 17,52 MB
Release : 2023-07-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 2832530621
Author : Rubem P. Mondaini
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 18,16 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9814304905
Macrophages and tumours : friends or foe? / H.M. Byrne, M.R. Owen -- Tumour cells proliferation and migration under the influence of their microenvironment / A. Friedman, Yangjin Kim -- Phenomenological study of the growth rate of transformed vero cells, changes in the growth mode and fractal behaviour of colony contours / M.A.C. Huergo [und weitere] -- Evidence of deterministic evolution in the immunological memory process / A. de Castro [und weitere] -- Mathematical and computer modelling of control mechanisms of hierarchical molecular-genetic systems / H.B. Nabievich [und weitere] -- Monte Carlo simulation of protein models : at the interface between statistical physics and biology / T. Wüst, D.P. Landau -- Stochastic matrices as a tool for biological evolution models / R. Kerner, R. Aldrovandi -- Fractal and nonlinear analysis of biochemical time series / H. Puebla, E. Hernandez-Martinez, J. Alvarez-Ramirez -- Control and synchronization of Hodgkin-Huxley neurons / H. Puebla, E. Hernandez-Martinez, J. Alvarez-Ramirez -- A correlation between Steiner atom sites and amide planes in protein structures / R.P. Mondaini -- Mathematical modelling of sustainable development : an application to the case of the rain-forest of Madagascar / C. Bernard -- Population dynamics on complex food webs / L. Berec -- New Zealand paleodemography : pitfalls and possibilities / C.E.M. Pearce, S.N. Cohen, J. Tuke -- Regulation by optimal taxation of an open access single species fishery considering Allee effect on renewable resource / A. Rojas-Palma, E. González-Olivares -- Effect of mass media on the cultural diversity of axelrod model of social influence / J.F. Fontanari -- Leslie matrices and survival curves contain thermodynamical information / F.R. Momo, S. Doyle, J.E. Ure -- Graph partitioning approaches for analyzing biological networks / Neng Fan, P.M. Pardalos, A. Chinchuluun -- Protein-protein interactions prediction using 1-nearest neighbors classification algorithm and feature selection / M.R. Guarracino [und weitere] -- Clustering data in chemosystematics using a graph-theoretic approach : an application of minimum spanning tree with penalty concept / L.S. Oliveira [und weitere] -- Natural clustering using python / D.E. Razera [und weitere] -- On the dynamics of reinfection : the case of tuberculosis / Xiaohong Wang [und weitere] -- The spread of HIV infection on immune system : implications on cell populations and Ro epidemic estimate / M. Rossi, L.F. Lopez -- Real-time forecasting for an influenza pandemic in the UK from prior information and multiple surveillance datasets / G. Ketsetzis [und weitere] -- A probabilistic cellular automata for studying the spreading of pneumonia in a population / Y. Saito, M.A.A. Silva, D. Alves -- Contribution of waterborne transport in the spread of infection with Toxoplasma gondii / D.Y.A. Trejos, I.G. Duarte -- SIS epidemic model with pulse vaccination strategy at variable times / F. Cordova-Lepe, R. Del Valle, G. Robledo
Author : Kevin S. McCann
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 23,71 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Science
ISBN : 0691134189
This book synthesizes and reconciles modern and classical perspectives into a general unified theory.
Author : Kevin S. McCann
Publisher :
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 33,8 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0198824289
Theoretical Ecology: concepts and applications continues the authoritative and established sequence of theoretical ecology books initiated by Robert M. May which helped pave the way for ecology to become a more robust theoretical science, encouraging the modern biologist to better understand the mathematics behind their theories. This latest instalment builds on the legacy of its predecessors with a completely new set of contributions. Rather than placing emphasis on the historical ideas in theoretical ecology, the Editors have encouraged each contribution to: synthesize historical theoretical ideas within modern frameworks that have emerged in the last 10-20 years (e.g. bridging population interactions to whole food webs); describe novel theory that has emerged in the last 20 years from historical empirical areas (e.g. macro-ecology); and finally to cover the rapidly expanding area of theoretical ecological applications (e.g. disease theory and global change theory). The result is a forward-looking synthesis that will help guide the field through a further decade of discovery and development. It is written for upper level undergraduate students, graduate students, and researchers seeking synthesis and the state of the art in growing areas of interest in theoretical ecology, genetics, evolutionary ecology, and mathematical biology.
Author : Cang Hui
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 12,69 MB
Release : 2022-01-13
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1108805000
Until now, biological invasions have been conceptualised and studied mainly as a linear process: from introduction to establishment to spread. This volume charts a new course for the field, drawing on key developments in network ecology and complexity science. It defines an agenda for Invasion Science 2.0 by providing new framings and classification of research topics and by offering tentative solutions to vexing problems. In particular, it conceptualises a transformative ecosystem as an open adaptive network with critical transitions and turnover, with resident species heuristically learning and fine-tuning their niches and roles in a multiplayer eco-evolutionary game. It erects signposts pertaining to network interactions, structures, stability, dynamics, scaling, and invasibility. It is not a recipe book or a road map, but an atlas of possibilities: a 'hitchhiker's guide'.
Author : Mark R. T. Dale
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 33,74 MB
Release : 2021-04-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1108491847
Displays the broad range of quantitative approaches to analysing ecological networks, providing clear examples and guidance for researchers.
