contents, volume i preface to the third edition preface to the first edition 1. continuous population models for single species 1.1 continuous growth models 1.2 insect outbreak model: spruce budworm 1.3 delay models 1.4 linear analysis of delay population models: periodicsolutions 1.5 delay models in physiology: periodic dynamic diseases 1.6 harvesting a single natural population 1.7 population model with age distribution exercises
2. discrete population models for a single species 2.1 introduction: simple models 2.2 cobwebbing: a graphical procedure of solution 2.3 discrete logistic-type model: chaos 2.4 stability, periodic solutions and bifurcations 2.5 discrete delay models 2.6 fishery management model .2.7 ecological implications and caveats 2.8 tumour cell growth exercises
3. models for interacting populations 3.1 predator-prey models: lotka-volterra systems 3.2 complexity and stability 3.3 realistic predator-prey models 3.4 analysis of a predator-prey model with limit cycle periodicbehaviour: parameter domains of stability 3.5 competition models: competitive exclusion principle 3.6 mutualism or symbiosis 3.7 general models and cautionary remarks 3.8 threshold phenomena 3.9 discrete growth models for interacting populations 3.10 predator-prey models: detailed analysis exercises
4. temperature-dependent sex determination (tsd) 4.1 biological introduction and historical asides on thecrocodilia. 4.2 nesting assumptions and simple population model 4.3 age-structured population model for crocodilia 4.4 density-dependent age-structured model equations 4.5 stability of the female population in wet marsh region l 4.6 sex ratio and survivorship 4.7 temperature-dependent sex determination (tsd) versus geneticsex determination (gsd) 4.8 related aspects on sex determination exercise
5. modelling the dynamics of marital interaction: divorceprediction and marriage repair 5.1 psychological background and data: gottman and levensonmethodology 5.2 marital typology and modelling motivation 5.3 modelling strategy and the model equations 5.4 steady states and stability 5.5 practical results from the model 5.6 benefits, implications and marriage repair scenarios 6. reaction kinetics 6.1 enzyme kinetics: basic enzyme reaction 6.2 transient time estimates and nondimensionalisation 6.3 michaelis-menten quasi-steady state analysis 6.4 suicide substrate kinetics 6.5 cooperative phenomena 6.6 autocatalysis, activation and inhibition 6.7 multiple steady states, mushrooms and isolas exercises
7. biological oscillators and switches 7.1 motivation, brief history and background 7.2 feedback control mechanisms 7.3 oscillators and switches with two or more species: generalqualitative results 7.4 simple two-species oscillators: parameter domain determinationfor oscillations 7.5 hodgkin-huxley theory of nerve membranes:fitzhugh-nagumomodel 7.6 modelling the control of testosterone secretion and chemicalcastration exercises
8. bz oscillating reactions 8.1 belousov reaction and the field-koros-noyes (fkn) model 8.2 linear stability analysis of the fkn model and existence oflimit cycle solutions 8.3 nonlocal stability of the fkn model 8.4 relaxation oscillators: approximation for thebelousov-zhabotinskii reaction 8.5 analysis of a relaxation model for limit cycle oscillations inthe belousov-zhabotinskii reaction exercises
9. perturbed and coupled oscillators and black holes 9.1 phase resetting in oscillators 9.2 phase resetting curves 9.3 black holes 9.4 black holes in real biological oscillators 9.5 coupled oscillators: motivation and model system 9.6 phase locking of oscillations: synchronisation infireflies 9.7 singular perturbation analysis: preliminarytransformation 9.8 singular perturbation analysis: transformed system 9.9 singular perturbation analysis: two-time expansion 9.10 analysis of the phase shift equation and application tocoupled belousov-zhabotinskii reactions exercises
10. dynamics of infectious diseases 10.1 historical aside on epidemics 10.2 simple epidemic models and practical applications 10.3 modelling venereal diseases 10.4 multi-group model for gonorrhea and its control 10.5 aids: modelling the transmission dynamics of the humanimmunodeficiency virus (hiv) 10.6 hiv: modelling combination drug therapy 10.7 delay model for hiv infection with drug therapy 10.8 modelling the population dynamics of acquired immunity toparasite infection 10.9 age-dependent epidemic model and threshold criterion 10.10 simple drug use epidemic model and threshold analysis 10.11 bovine tuberculosis infection in badgers and caule 10.12 modelling control strategies for bovine tuberculosis inbadgers and cattle exercises
11. reaction diffusion, chemotaxis, and noniocal mechanisms 11.1 simple random walk and derivation of the diffusionequation 11.2 reaction diffusion equations 11.3 models for animal dispersal 11.4 chemotaxis 11.5 nonlocal effects and long range diffusion 11.6 cell potential and energy approach to diffusion and long rangeeffects exercises
12. oscillator-generated wave phenomena 12. i belousov-zhabotinskii reaction kinematic waves 12.2 central pattern generator: experimental facts in the swimmingof fish 12.3 mathematical model for the central pattern generator 12.4 analysis of the phase coupled model system exercises
13. biological waves: single-species models 13. l background and the travelling waveform 13.2 fisher-kolmogoroff equation and propagating wavesolutions 13.3 asymptotic solution and stability of wavefront solutions ofthe fisher-kolmogoroff equation 13.4 density-dependent diffusion-reaction diffusion models and someexact solutions 13.5 waves in models with multi-steady state kinetics: spread andcontrol of an insect population 13.6 calcium waves on amphibian eggs: activation waves on medakaeggs 13.7 invasion wavespeeds with dispersive variability 13.8 species invasion and range expansion exercises
14. use and abuse of fractals 14.1 fractals: basic concepts and biological relevance 14.2 examples of fractals and their generation 14.3 fractal dimension: concepts and methods of calculation 14.4 fractals or space-filling? appendices a. phase plane analysis b. routh-hurwitz conditions, jury conditions, descartes' rule of signs, and exact solutions of a cubic b.1 polynomials and conditions b.2 descartes' rule of signs b.3 roots of a general cubic polynomial bibliography index contents, volume ii j.d. murray: mathematical biology, ii: spatial models andbiomedical applications preface to the third edition preface to the first edition 1. multi-species waves and practical applications 1.1 intuitive expectations 1.2 waves of pursuit and evasion in predator-prey systems 1.3 competition model for the spatial spread of the grey squirrelin britain 1.4 spread of genetically engineered organisms 1.5 travelling fronts in the belousov-zhabotinskii reaction 1.6 waves in excitable media 1.7 travelling wave trains in reaction diffusion systems withoscillatory kinetics 1.8 spiral waves 1.9 spiral wave solutions of x-co reaction diffusion systems
2. spatial pattern formation with reaction diffusion systems 2.1 role of pattern in biology 2.2 reaction diffusion (turing) mechanisms 2.3 general conditions for diffusion-driven instability:linearstability analysis and evolution of spatial pattern 2.4 detailed analysis of pattern initiation in a reaction diffusionmechanism 2.5 dispersion relation, turing space, scale and geometry effectsin pattern formation models 2.6 mode selection and the dispersion relation 2.7 pattern generation with single-species models: spatialheterogeneity with the spruce budworm model 2.8 spatial patterns in scalar population interaction diffusionequations with convection: ecological control strategies 2.9 nonexistence of spatial patterns in reaction diffusion systems:general and particular results
3. animal coat patterns and other practical applications ofreactiondiffusion mechanisms 3.1 mammalian coat patterns--'how the leopard got its spots' 3.2 teratologies: examples of animal coat patternabnormalities 3.3 a pattern formation mechanism for butterfly wing patterns 3.4 modelling hair patterns in a whorl in acetabularia
4. pattern formation on growing domains: alligators andsnakes 4. i stripe pattern formation in the alligator: experiments 4.2 modelling concepts: determining the time of stripeformation 4.3 stripes and shadow stripes on the alligator 4.4 spatial patterning of teeth primordia in thealligator:background and relevance 4.5 biology of tooth initiation 4.6 modelling tooth primordium initiation: background 4.7 model mechanism for alligator teeth patterning 4.8 results and comparison with experimental data 4.9 prediction experiments 4.10 concluding remarks on alligator tooth spatial patterning 4.11 pigmentation pattern formation on snakes 4.12 cell-chemotaxis model mechanism 4.13 simple and complex snake pattern elements 4.14 propagating pattern generation with the celi-chemotaxissystem
5. bacterial patterns and chemotaxis 5.1 background and experimental results 5.2 model mechanism for e. coli in the semi-solid experiments 5.3 liquid phase model: intuitive analysis of patternformation 5.4 interpretation of the analytical results and numericalsolutions 5.5 semi-solid phase model mechanism for s. typhimurium 5.6 linear analysis of the basic semi-solid model 5.7 brief outline
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