Modeling living systems : from cell to ecosystem /
Alain Pavé.
- London : Wiley, ISTE ; 2012.
- 1 online resource (xix, 620 pages) : illustrations.
- Environmental engineering series .
- Environmental engineering series (London, England) .
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.