Population Dynamics and the Tribolium Model: Genetics and Demography (Monographs on Theoretical & Applied Genetics)

Costantino, Robert F.,Desharnais, Robert A.

ISBN 10: 3540975810 / ISBN 13: 9783540975816

Published by Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heide, 1991

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Synopsis:

The study of populations is becoming increasingly focused on dynamics. We believe there are two reasons for this trend. The ftrst is the impactof nonlinear dynamics with its exciting ideas and colorful bifurcations, domains of attraction, chaos, fractals, strange attractors. Complexity, which is so very much a part of biology, now seems to be also a part of mathematics. A second trend is the accessibility of the new concepts. Thebarriers tocommunicationbetween theoristandexperimentalistseemless impenetrable. The active participationofthe experimentalist means that the theory will obtain substance. Our role is the application of the theory of dynamics to the analysis ofbiological populations. We began our work early in 1979 by writing an ordinary differential equation for the rateofchange in adult numbers which was based on an equilibrium model proposed adecadeearlier. Duringthenextfewmonths weftlledournotebookswithstraightforward deductions from the model and its associated biological implications. Slowly, some of the biological observations were explained and papers followed on a variety of genetic and demographic stability, stationary probability distributions for population size,population growth asabirth-deathprocess, natural selectionanddensity-dependent population growth, genetic disequilibrium, and the stationary stochastic dynamics of adult numbers.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Population Dynamics and the Tribolium Model:...
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heide
Publication Date: 1991
Binding: hardcover
Condition: Good