Predicting spatial effects in ecological systems : 1991 Symposium on Some Mathematical Questions in Biology, August 4-8, 1991, San Antonio, Texas
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Predicting spatial effects in ecological systems : 1991 Symposium on Some Mathematical Questions in Biology, August 4-8, 1991, San Antonio, Texas
（Lectures on mathematics in the life sciences, v. 23）
American Mathematical Society, 1993
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Hokkaido University, Library, Graduate School of Science, Faculty of Science and School of Science図書
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This collection of papers addresses a variety of problems and approaches for predicting spatial effects in ecological systems. The central themes are the characterization of effects, exploration of mechanisms, and understanding of consequences of spatial heterogeneity on ecological systems. Discussed here are the spatial dynamics of natural systems and the impact of economic and sociological changes, as well as recent adaptation methods from statistical lattice physics.Progress in dealing with spatial effects in ecological systems is accelerating as faster computers access the extensive data sets available from remote sensing. The new mathematical approaches presented here will be especially useful for identifying the effect of landscape change on ecosystem productivity and sustainability. Balancing theoretical development and empirical testing, this book provides an excellent introduction to the scope and scale of issues to be addressed in predicting change in ecological systems. Mathematicians and ecologists interested in these issues will find this book useful, and individual chapters will be of interest to physicists, econometricians, landscape ecologists, and human ecologists.
Table of Contents
Introductory remarks by S. A. Levin Markovian analysis of the spatially dependent dynamics of beaver ponds by J. Pastor, J. Bonde, C. Johnston, and R. J. Naiman Simulating spatial patterns of land-use change in Rondonia, Brazil by V. H. Dale, F. Southworth, R. V. O'Neill, A. Rosen, and R. Frohn A two-sector model of land use and deforestation: Funding urban development with a tax on urban and rural employment by D. W. Jones and R. V. O'Neill Spatial dynamics in recovery of shortgrass steppe ecosystems by D. P. Coffin, W. K. Lauenroth, and I. C. Burke Renormalization relations for scale transformation in ecology by B. T. Milne and A. R. Johnson Lattices and landscapes by R. E. Plotnick and R. H. Gardner Concluding remarks by R. H. Gardner Appendix, Markov matrices by J. Pastor, J. Bonde, C. Johnston, and R. J. Naiman.
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