Mathematical Ecology: Proceedings of the Autumn Course (Research Seminars), held at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Miramare-Trieste, Italy, 29 November – 10 December 1982

Front Matter....Pages I-XII
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
On the Phenotypic Plasticity of Leaf Photosynthetic Capacity....Pages 2-14
A Model of Optimal Thermoregulation during Gestation by Sceloporus jarrovi , a Live-Bearing Lizard....Pages 15-28
Holling’s ‘Hungry Mantid’ Model for the Invertebrate Functional Response Considered as a Markov Process. Part 0: A Survey of the Main Ideas and Results....Pages 29-41
The Effect of Competition on the Flowering Time of Annual Plants....Pages 42-54
Evolutionarily Stable Strategies for Larval Dragonflies....Pages 55-74
Front Matter....Pages 75-75
The Storage Effect in Stochastic Population Models....Pages 76-89
The Stable Size Distribution: An Example in Structured Population Dynamics....Pages 90-96
“Stage-Structure” Models of Uniform Larval Competition....Pages 97-113
Simple Models for Age Dependent Predation....Pages 114-119
A Model of Naticid Gastropod Predator-Prey Coevolution....Pages 120-136
A Theoretical Model for the Coevolution of a Host and Its Parasite....Pages 137-152
Front Matter....Pages 153-153
Particle Size Spectra in Ecology....Pages 154-162
Species-Abundance Relation and Diversity....Pages 163-177
A Competition Model with Age Structure....Pages 178-192
Stability vs.Complexity in Model Competition Communities....Pages 193-207
Persistence in Food Webs....Pages 208-219
The Structure of Cycling in the Ythan Estuary....Pages 220-235
Front Matter....Pages 237-237
Constant Yield Harvesting of Population Systems....Pages 238-246
Estimating the response of population to exploitation from catch and effort data....Pages 247-261
Bioeconomics and the Management of Tuna Stocks in the Eastern Tropical Atlantic....Pages 262-285
Front Matter....Pages 237-237
The Multispecies Fisheries Problem: A Case Study of Georges Bank....Pages 286-309
The Legacy of Beverton and Holt....Pages 310-325
Front Matter....Pages 327-327
Eradication Strategies for Virus Infections....Pages 328-331
Models for a Class of Man-Environment Epidemic Diseases....Pages 332-343
Mathematical Models of Vertical Transmission of Infection....Pages 344-355
Integral Equations for Infections with Discrete Parasites: Hosts with Lotka Birth Law....Pages 356-365
Front Matter....Pages 367-367
Predator-Prey Dynamics in Spatially Structured Populations: Manipulating Dispersal in a Coccinellid-Aphid Interaction....Pages 368-389
Oceanic Turbulent Diffusion of Abiotic and Biotic Species....Pages 390-406
Taxes in Cellular Ecology....Pages 407-424
Nonlinear Diffusion Problems in Age-Structured Population Dynamics....Pages 425-440
A Mathematical Model of Population Dynamics Involving Diffusion and Resources....Pages 441-454
Front Matter....Pages 455-455
Critical Patch Size for Plankton and Patchiness....Pages 456-477
Spatial Distribution of Rapidly Dispersing Animals in Heterogeneous Environments....Pages 478-491
Spatial Distribution of Competing Species....Pages 492-501
Space Structures of Some Migrating Populations....Pages 502-513
Back Matter....Pages 515-517