Modelling Fluctuating Populations, originally published in 1982, is a classic textbook
because primarily, this book takes a distinctive approach to population dynamics, by …

Population biology has been investigated quantitatively for many decades, resulting in a rich
body of scientific literature. Ecologists often avoid this literature, put off by its apparently …

Interest in the dynamics of biological populations is quite old, its roots being traceable to the
dawn of civilization. Many illustrious names are associated with early mathematical theories …

1. A linear model for population dynamics in stochastic environments is introduced by
linearizing the logistic equation in discrete time for small stochastic variations around a large …

The survival time of small and isolated populations will often be relatively low, by which the
survival of species living in such a way will depend on powers of dispersal sufficiently high …

These lecture notes are from a series of lectures given at a regional conference at Logan,
Utah, in July of 1982. The audience had a wide variety of backgrounds, and principal groups …

The simplest mathematical models describing the dynamics of natural populations of plants
and animals are nonlinear. These models can exhibit an astonishing array of dynamical …

What makes populations stabilize? What makes them fluctuate? Are populations in complex
ecosystems more stable than populations in simple ecosystems? In 1973, Robert May …

The title of this review implies certain biases which I would like to confront at the outset,
suggesting in the process the alternative title" Population Dynamics and Heterogeneous …

These notes serve as an introduction to stochastic theories which are useful in population
biology; they are based on a course given at the Courant Institute, New York, in the Spring of …