The Importance of Life History and Population Interactions in Population Growth
Population interactions are the centerpiece of many ecological studies. Especially the roles of competition and predation on populations on dynamics and evolution have remained a hot topic since Lotka and Volterra’s classical works. However, understanding
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silience and Stability of Ecological and Social Systems
Resilience and Stability of Ecological and Social Systems
István Karsai • Thomas Schmickl • George Kampis
Resilience and Stability of Ecological and Social Systems
István Karsai Department of Biological Sciences East Tennessee State University Johnson City, TN, USA
Thomas Schmickl Department of Zoology Karl-Franzens-Universitat Graz, Austria
George Kampis Eotvos University Budapest Budapest, Hungary
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Foreword
Climate change has been always affecting planet Earth, but what is different this time is that the human society became an important element of the causational network of these changes. Ecology and climate science are on the frontline of the research to decipher this network. Generating predictions of events are especially important for understanding and managing the processes of these complex systems. In this endeavor, modeling is an important skill set and tool to understand and predict. Unfortunately, however, the use of these tools is not widespread in biology because the training of biologists is generally different from the training of physicists or chemists, who are more accustomed to models and modeling. It seems that much of the existing excellent material (both books and articles) on either modeling or mathematical biology is not readily accessible to the students of biology. Mathematicians who are interested in modeling biological
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