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Ecological modelling and ecophysics : agricultural and environmental applications /
This book focuses on use-inspired basic science by connecting theoretical methods and mathematical developments in ecology with practical real-world problems, either in production or conservation. The text aims to increase the reader's confidence to rely on partial aspects and relations of syst...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bristol [England] (Temple Circus, Temple Way, Bristol BS1 6HG, UK) :
IOP Publishing,
[2020]
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| Colección: | IOP ebooks. 2020 collection.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This book focuses on use-inspired basic science by connecting theoretical methods and mathematical developments in ecology with practical real-world problems, either in production or conservation. The text aims to increase the reader's confidence to rely on partial aspects and relations of systems to which we only have an incomplete understanding. By abstracting and simplifying problems, Ecological Modelling and Ecophysics seeks to expand the reader's understanding and ability to solve practical issues with rigorous quantitative methods. The first part of this book is devoted to classical methods in population and community ecology. The second part aims to introduce the reader to certain tools and techniques from different branches of physics, such as thermodynamics, statistical mechanics and complex systems, and their applications in ecology and environmental sciences. Connecting ecological problems with well-studied phenomena in physics allows the exploiting of analogies to gain deeper insight into these problems, to identify novel questions and problems, and to get access to alternative quantitative methods and tools from physics. This is an essential text for quantitative ecologists and environmental scientists with an interest in novel mathematical approaches, and also applied physicists and mathematicians with an interest in ecological systems. |
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| Notas: | "Version: 20200601"--Title page verso. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (various pagings) : illustrations (some color). Also available in print. |
| Público: | Quantitative ecologists and environmental scientists (including biophysicists) with an interest in novel mathematical approaches. Applied physicists and applied mathematicians with an interest in ecological systems. |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9780750324328 9780750324311 |