This book is designed to be a practical study in infectious disease dynamics. It offers an easy-
to-follow implementation and analysis of mathematical epidemiology. It focuses on recent …

Time irreversibility is a distinctive feature of nonequilibrium dynamics and several measures
of irreversibility have been introduced to assess the distance from thermal equilibrium of a …

Abstract Janzen–Connell effects (JCEs), specialised predation of seeds and seedlings near
conspecific trees, are hypothesised to maintain species richness. While previous studies …

The essentiality of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) in military and health applications
cannot be overemphasized, and this has made these tiny sensors soft targets for malware …

Predicting which species will present (or absent) across geographical regions, and where,
remains one of the important issues in ecology. From a methodical viewpoint, one of the …

During the past century, the fundamental niche, the complete set of environments that allow
an individual, population, or species to persist, has shaped ecological thinking. It is a crucial …

Efforts to explain animal population cycles often invoke consumer-resource theory, which
has shown that consumer-resource interactions alone can drive population cycles. Eco-evo …

The complex network of interactions between species makes understanding the response of
ecosystems to disturbances an enduring challenge. One commonplace way to deal with this …

Studies of oscillatory populations have a long history in ecology. A first‐principles
understanding of these dynamics can provide insights into causes of population regulation …

We analyze the susceptible–infected–susceptible model for epidemic spreading in which a
fraction of the individuals become immune by vaccination. This process is understood as a …