How Long to Read Nonlinear Dynamics of Interacting Populations

How Long Does it Take to Read Nonlinear Dynamics of Interacting Populations?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 41 minutes to read Nonlinear Dynamics of Interacting Populations by Alexander D Bazykin

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

This book contains a systematic study of ecological communities of two or three interacting populations. Starting from the Lotka–Volterra system, various regulating factors are considered, such as rates of birth and death, predation and competition. The different factors can have a stabilizing or a destabilizing effect on the community, and their interplay leads to increasingly complicated behavior. Studying and understanding this path to greater dynamical complexity of ecological systems constitutes the backbone of this book. On the mathematical side, the tool of choice is the qualitative theory of dynamical systems — most importantly bifurcation theory, which describes the dependence of a system on the parameters. This approach allows one to find general patterns of behavior that are expected to be observed in ecological models. Of special interest is the reaction of a given model to disturbances of its present state, as well as to changes in the external conditions. This leads to the general idea of “dangerous boundaries” in the state and parameter space of an ecological system. The study of these boundaries allows one to analyze and predict qualitative and often sudden changes of the dynamics — a much-needed tool, given the increasing antropogenic load on the biosphere. As a spin-off from this approach, the book can be used as a guided tour of bifurcation theory from the viewpoint of application. The interested reader will find a wealth of intriguing examples of how known bifurcations occur in applications. The book can in fact be seen as bridging the gap between mathematical biology and bifurcation theory. Contents:Ideas and Methods of Modeling PopulationsDynamics of Isolated PopulationsPredator-Prey InteractionsCompetition and SymbiosisLocal Systems of Three PopulationsDissipative Structures in Predator-Prey Systems Readership: Nonlinear scientists and biologists. keywords: “This elegant and useful book explains how various mechanisms are represented by nonlinear terms in ordinary differential equations for population sizes … I highly recommended the book to both theoretical population biologists and applied mathematicians with an interest in dynamical systems.” Odo Diekmann University of Utrecht, The Netherlands

How long is Nonlinear Dynamics of Interacting Populations?

Nonlinear Dynamics of Interacting Populations by Alexander D Bazykin is 216 pages long, and a total of 55,296 words.

This makes it 73% the length of the average book. It also has 68% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Nonlinear Dynamics of Interacting Populations Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 2 minutes to read Nonlinear Dynamics of Interacting Populations aloud.

What Reading Level is Nonlinear Dynamics of Interacting Populations?

Nonlinear Dynamics of Interacting Populations is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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