Pavé, Alain (Biometrician)

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.

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Ecology--Mathematical models.
Biology--Mathematical models.
NATURE--Reference.
SCIENCE--Life Sciences--Biology.
SCIENCE--Life Sciences--General.
Biology--Mathematical models.
Ecology--Mathematical models.


Electronic books.

QH323.5 / .P38 2012eb