| Population Biology: Concepts and Models | 
 enlarge | Author: Alan Hastings
Publisher: Springer
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 715127
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st ed. 1997. Corr. 2nd printing
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 244
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 9 x 6.8 x 0.6
ISBN: 0387948538
Dewey Decimal Number: 574.52480151
EAN: 9780387948539
ASIN: 0387948538
Publication Date: January 1, 1997
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a gentle but thorough introduction to a fascinating field July 3, 1998
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
The field of mathematical biology has a long and storied history of examining relationships between species and scales since before Fisher's 1930 monograph "The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection." Although the excellent text by Edelstein-Keshet is still widely used, on the recommendation of a colleague I recently picked up a copy of the new (1997) text authored by Alan Hastings, out of UC Davis. A 220 page book published by Springer, its title is Population Biology: Concepts and Models. Available in paperback, the volume is divided into Single Species (with sections on density-independent and density-dependent population growth, population genetics, evolution of life histories) and Interacting Species (with sections on interactions, competition, predator-prey, host-parasitoid relationships and diseases). While detailing these concepts, the author includes bite-size reviews of matrix algebra, differential equations, stability computations, phase plane analysis and other topical quantitative techniques. I found the book eminently readable, which says a lot coming from someone who staggered through 18 semester hours of calculus and "Diff EQ" over 20 years ago. This book will be of great help to "ecologists ... [who] often avoid [population biology] literature, put off by its apparently formidable mathematics" (to quote from the back cover).
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