Dispersal, Individual Movement and Spatial Ecology

Part I: Individual Animal Movement.- 1. Stochas-tic optimal foraging theory.- 2. Levy or not? Analysing positional data from animal movement paths.- 3. Beyond optimal searching: Recent developments in the modelling of animal movement patterns as Levy walks.- Part II: From Individuals to Populations.- 4. The mathematical analysis of biological aggregation and dispersal: progress, problems and perspectives.- 5. Hybrid modelling of individual movement and collective behaviour.- 6. From individual movement rules to population level patterns: the case of central-place foragers.- 7. Transport and anisotropic diffusion models for movement in oriented habitats.- 8. Incorporating complex foraging of zooplankton in models: role of micro- and mesoscale processes in macroscale patterns.- Part III: Populations, Communities and Ecosystems.- 9. Life on the move: modeling the effects of climate-driven range shifts with integrodifference equations.- 10. Control of competitive bioinvasion.- 11. Destruction and diversity: effects of habitat loss on ecological communities.- 12. Emergence and propagation of patterns in nonlocal reaction-diffusion equations arising in the theory of speciation.- 13. Numerical study of pest population size at various diffusion rates.