Mathematical Aspects of Population Biology

Frank C. Hoppensteadt

A chapter in Mathematics Today Twelve Informal Essays, 1978, pp 297-320 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Why don’t we see 17-year locusts every year? Are we catching too many fish? What will the age distribution be in the U.S. ten years from now? How much sewage can be treated by a bacterial population in a day? These are typical questions from population biology, and the examples presented here show how these questions and others can be studied by mathematical methods. Population biology is primarily concerned with counting, estimating, and predicting population sizes. These large complicated problems are of considerable importance to science, industry, and government, and are often solved using very simple mathematical ideas.

Keywords: Fish Population; Population Biology; Standing Stock; Spiral Wave; Mathematical Aspect (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1978
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4613-9435-8_12

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