Research Catalog

Title

Diffusion and ecological problems : modern perspectives / Akira Okubo, with Simon A. Levin.

Author

Ōkubo, Akira.

Publication

New York : Springer-Verlag, [2001], ©2001.

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Additional Authors

• Levin, Simon A.
• Ōkubo, Akira.

Description

xx, 467 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.

Series Statement

Interdisciplinary applied mathematics ; v. 14

Uniform Title

Interdisciplinary applied mathematics ; v. 14.

Subjects

• Biogeography > Mathematical models
• Diffusion > Mathematical models
• Ecology > Mathematical models

Note

• Rev. ed. of: Diffusion and ecological problems / Akira Okubo. 1980.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 374-442) and indexes.

Contents

1. Introduction: The Mathematics of Ecological Diffusion / Akira Okubo -- 2. The Basics of Diffusion / Akira Okubo and Simon A. Levin -- 3. Passive Diffusion in Ecosystems / Akira Okubo, Josef David Ackerman and Dennis P. Swaney -- 4. Diffusion of "Smell" and "Taste": Chemical Communication / Akira Okubo, Robert A. Armstrong and Jeannette Yen -- 5. Mathematical Treatment of Biological Diffusion / Akira Okubo and Daniel Grunbaum -- 6. Some Examples of Animal Diffusion / Akira Okubo and Peter Kareiva -- 7. The Dynamics of Animal Grouping / Akira Okubo, Daniel Grunbaum and Leah Edelstein-Keshet -- 8. Animal Movements in Home Range / Akira Okubo and Louis Gross -- 9. Patchy Distribution and Diffusion / Akira Okubo and James G. Mitchell -- 10. Population Dynamics in Temporal and Spatial Domains / Akira Okubo, Alan Hastings and Thomas Powell.

ISBN

0387986766 (alk. paper)

LCCN

00052258

OCLC

• ocm45247335
• SCSB-4282493

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries