Encyclopedia of Theoretical Ecology

Adaptive Dynamics Adaptive Landscapes Adaptive Vigilance Behavior Age Structure Allee Effects Allometry and Growth Animal Dispersal see Dispersal, Animal Apparent Competition Applied Ecology Assembly Processes Bayesian Statistics Behavioral Ecology Belowground Processes Beverton Holt Model Bifurcations Biogeochemistry and Nutrient Cycles Birth Death Models Bottom-Up Control Branching Processes Cannibalism Cellular Automata Chaos Coevolution Compartment Models Competition, Apparent see Apparent Competition Computational Ecology Conservation Biology Continental Scale Patterns Cooperation, Evolution of Delay Differential Equations Demographic Stochasticity see Stochasticity, Demographic Demography Difference Equations Differential Equations, Delay see Delay Differential Equations Differential Equations, Ordinary see Ordinary Differential Equations Differential Equations, Partial see Partial Differential Equations Discounting in Bioeconomics Disease Dynamics Dispersal, Animal Dispersal, Evolution of Dispersal, Plant Diversity Measures Dynamic Programming Ecological Economics Ecological Networks see Networks, Ecological Ecological Stoichiometry see Stoichiometry, Ecological Economics, Ecological see Ecological Economics Ecosystem-Based Management see Marine Reserves and Ecosystem-Based Management Ecosystem Ecology Ecosystem Engineers Ecosystem Services Ecosystem Valuation Ecotoxicology Energy Budgets Environmental Heterogeneity and Plants Environmental Stochasticity see Stochasticity, Environmental Epidemiology and Epidemic Modeling Evolutionarily Stable Strategies Evolutionary Computation Facilitation Fisheries Ecology Food Chains and Food Web Modules Food Webs Foraging Behavior Forest Simulators Frequentist Statistics Functional Traits of Species and Individuals Game Theory Gap Analysis and Presence/Absence Models Gas and Energy Fluxes across Landscapes Genetic Drift see Mutation, Selection, and Genetic Drift Geographic Information Systems Harvesting Theory

Alan Hastings is a Distinguished Professor at the University of California Davis in the Department of Environmental Science and Policy. He is the Editor-in-Chief for the Theoretical Ecology Series (Academic Press) and the Journal of Mathematical Biology. Louis Gross is a Professor of Ecology, Evolutionary Biology, and Mathematics, and Director of the Institute of Environmental Modeling at the University of Tennessee.

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