Includes bibliographical references and index.

Methodology of modeling in biology and ecology -- Functional representations: construction and interpretation of mathematical models -- Growth models -- Population dynamics and genetics -- Models of the interaction between populations -- Compartmental models -- Complexity, scales, chaos, chance and other oddities -- Appendix 1: Differential equations -- Appendix 2: Recurrence equations -- Appendix 3: Fitting a model to experimental results -- Appendix 4: Introduction to stochastic processes -- Bibliography -- Index.

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