PCB 5485
Models in Ecology (Class E-mail)
Dr. John F. Weishampel

World Wide Web Sites of Interest

Supplementary Reading

Potential sources for models and modeling ideas as well as a method to get more in depth background on the lecture topics.

Primary related journals (available at UCF Library):

Ecological Modelling

Ecological Complexity

QH541.15.M3 E27

QH540

The Journal of Theoretical Biology

QH301 .J75


Related Journals (occasionally contain pertinent articles):

American Naturalist

QH1 .A5

Animal Behaviour

QL750 .B7

Biological Conservation

S900 .B5

Biometrics

QH301 .B48

Biometrika

QH301 .B5

BioScience

QH1 .B5683

Conservation Biology

QH75.A1 C665

Ecological Applications

QH540 .E273

Ecological Monographs

QH540 .E28

Ecology

QH540 .E3

Ecosystems

QH540 .E35

The Journal of Animal Ecology

QL750 .J65

The Journal of Applied Ecology

S3 .J86

The Journal of Wildlife Management

SK351 .J68

The Journal of Vegetation Science

QK900 .J67

The Journal of Zoology

QL1 .J6875

Landscape Ecology

QH75.A1 L36

Nature

Q1 .N2

Oecologia

QH540 .O3

Oikos

QH540 .O35

Plant Ecology

QK901.V3

Science

Q1 .S35

Scientific American

T1 .S5

Simulation

TA343 .S54

Trends in Ecology and Evolution

QH540 .T67


Related books available at the UCF Library:

Agren, G. & Bosatta, E.

Theoretical ecosystem ecology : understanding element cycles

QH344 .A35 1996

Allen, T. F. H. and T. B. Starr

Hierarchy : perspectives for ecological complexity

QH541 .A45 1982

Barbi, M. and Chillemi, S.

Chaos and noise in biology and medicine

QP33.6.C48 I58 1997

Bardossy, A.

Fuzzy rule-based modeling with applications to geophysical, biological, and engineering systems

TA342 .B37 1995

Baretta, J. W. and P. Ruardij

Tidal flat estuaries : simulation and analysis of the Ems estuary

QH149 .T53 1988

Bascompte, J. and Sole, R. V.

Modeling spatiotemporal dynamics in ecology

QH541.15.M3 M614 1998

Beltrami, E.

Mathematical Models in the Social and Biological Sciences

QA845 .B53 1987

Bissonette, J. A.

Wildlife and landscape ecology : effects of pattern and scale

SK352.W54 1997

Botkin, D. B.

Forest dynamics : an ecological model

QK938.F6 B66 1993

Braat, L. C. and Lierop, W. F. J. van.

Economic-ecological modeling

HC79.E5 E267 1987

Brody, M.

FORFLO : a model to predict changes in bottomland hardwood forests

I 49.2:F 76

Brown D. and P. Rothery

Models in biology : mathematics, statistics, and computing

QH323.5 .B756 1993

Bulmer, M.

Theoretical evolutionary ecology

QH366.2 .B85 1994

Bunde, A. and S. Havlin

Fractals in science

Q160.2.F73 1994

Bunde, A. and S. Havlin

Fractals and disordered systems

QA614.86.F72 1991

Burgman, M.A., S. Ferson and H. R. Akcakaya

Risk assessment in conservation biology

QH352 .B87 1993

Busenberg, S and M. Martelli

Differential equations models in biology, epidemiology, and ecology

QH323.5 .D54 1991

Carlson, J. D.

A model of the productivity of the northern pintail

I 49.89/2:93(7)

Caswell, H.

Matrix population models: construction, analysis, and

interpretation

QH352 .C375 1989

Clark, C. W.

Mathematical bioeconomics : the optimal management of renewable resources

QH705 .C4 1990

Costanza, R.

Ecological models of the Mississippi deltaic plain region

I 49.89:82/68

Cowardin, L. M.

Applications of a simulation model to decisions in mallard management

I 49.100: 17

Cowan, G. A., D. Pines, and D. Meltzer

Complexity: metaphors, models and reality

QH546.C645 1994

Coultas, C. L. and Hsieh, Y.

Ecology and management of tidal marshes : a model from the Gulf of Mexico

QH541.5.S24 E24

Czaran, T.

Spatiotemporal models of population and community dynamics

HB849.51 .C93 1998

Daley, D. J. and Gani, J.

Epidemic modelling : an introduction

RA652.2.M3 D34 1999

DeAngelis, D. L.

Dynamics of nutrient cycling and food webs

QH344 .D43 1992

Emmeche, C.

The garden in the machine : the emerging science of artificial life

QH324.2 .E4613 1994

Fry, J.

Biological data analysis : a practical approach

QH323.5 .B46 1993

Gardner, R. H.

Predicting spatial effects in ecological systems

QH541.15.E24 S66 1993

Getz, W. M.

Mathematical modelling in biology and ecology

QH323.5 .M364 1979

Getz, W. M.

Population harvesting : demographic models of fish, forest, and animal resources

QH352 .G47 1989

Gillman, M and Hails, R.

An introduction to ecological modelling : putting practice into theory

QH541.15.M3 G5 1997

Gleick, J.

Chaos : making a new science

Q172.5.C45 G54 1987

Grant, W. E.

Systems analysis and simulation in wildlife and fisheries sciences

SK355 .G73 1986

Grant, W. E., Pedersen, E. K., and Marin, S. L.

Ecology and natural resource management : systems analysis and simulation*

QH541.15.S5 G73 1997

Gurney, W. S. C. and Nisbet, R. M.

Ecological dynamics

GE45.M37 G87 1998

Gutowitz, H.

Cellular automata : theory and experiment

QA267.5.C45 C46 1991

Hall, C. A. S. and Day,

J. W.

Ecosystem modeling in theory and practice : an introduction with case histories

QH541.15.E45 E26

Hallam, T. G. and S. A. Levin

Applied mathematical ecology

QH541.15.M3 A66 1989

Hallam, T. G. and S. A. Levin

Mathematical ecology : an introduction

QH541.15.M3 M365 1986

Harte, J.

Consider a spherical cow-- : a course in environmental problem solving

QH541.15.M34 H37 1985

Hastings, A.

Population biology : concepts and models

QH352.H38 1997

Hilborn, R. and Mangel, M.

The ecological detective : confronting models with data

QH541.15.M3 H54 1997

Hofbauer, J. and Sigmund, K.

Evolutionary games and population dynamics

QH371.H624 1998

Holland, J. H.

Hidden order: how adaptation builds complexity

TJ217.H64 1995

Hoppensteadt, F. C.

Mathematical methods of population biology

QH352 .H66

Hoppensteadt, F. C.

Mathematics in medicine and the life sciences

QH323.5 .H67 1992

Huggett, R. J.

Modelling the human impact on nature : systems analysis of environmental problems

GF23.M35 H85 1993

Innis, G. S.

Grassland simulation model

QH541.5.P7 G72

Iyengar, S.

Structuring biological systems : a computer modeling approach

QH324.2 .S77 1992

Jeffers, J. N. R.

An introduction to systems analysis : with ecological

applications

QH541.15.M3 J43

Jeffers, J. N. R.

Microcomputers in environmental biology

QH541.15.E45 M53 1992

Jeffers, J. N. R.

Practitioner's handbook on the modelling of dynamic change in ecosystems

QH541.15.S5 J44 1988

Jorgensen, S. E.

Application of ecological modelling in environmental

QH541.15.E45 A66 1983

Jorgensen, S. E.

Fundamentals of ecological modelling

QH541.15.S5 J67 1986

Jorgensen, S. E.

State-of-the-art of ecological modelling

QH541.15.S5 C66 1978

Jorgensen, S. E. Halling-Sorensen, B. and Nielsen, S. N.

Handbook of environmental and ecological modeling

QH541.15.S5 H36 1996

Kaandorp, J. A.

Fractal modelling : growth and form in biology

QH511 .K28 1994

Kauffman, S. A.

The origins of order : self-organization and selection in evolution

QH325 .K39 1993

Kaye, B. H.

A random walk through fractal dimensions

QA614.86.K38 1989

Keen, R. E.

Computer simulation in biology : a BASIC introduction

QH323.5 .K45 1991

Kessell, S. R.

Gradient modeling : resource and fire management

QH541.15.S5 K46

Kingsland, S. E

Modeling nature : episodes in the history of population ecology

QH352 .K56 1995

19Kitching, R. L.

Systems ecology : an introduction to ecological modelling

QH541.15.E45 K57

Knechtel, C. D.

A numerical simulation model of the population dynamics of walleye pollock, Theragra chalcogramma (Pallas 1811), in a simplified ecosystem

C 55.13/2:NMFS F/NWC-19

Koch, A. L., Robinson, J. A., and Milliken, G. A.

Mathematical modeling in microbial ecology

QR100 .M38 1998

Kremer, J. N.

A coastal marine ecosystem : simulation and analysis

QH541.5.S3 K73

Levin, S. A., T. M. Powell, and J. H. Steele

Patch dynamics

QH541.15.S72 L48 1993

Levin, S. A., T. G. Hallam, L. J. Gross

Applied mathematical ecology

QH541.15.M3 A66 1989

Levy, S.

Artificial life: the quest for a new creation

QA76.87 .L49 1992

Levy, S.

Artificial life : a report from the frontier where computers meet biology

QA76.87 .L48 1993

Lubinski, K. S.

A conceptual model of the upper Mississippi River system ecosystem

I 49. 109/4:93-T 001

MacDonald, N.

Time lags in biological models

QH323.5 .M28

Mandelbrot, B. B.

The fractal geometry of nature

QA447 .M357 1983

Mangel, M.

Dynamic modeling in behavioral ecology

QL751.65.M3 M29 1988

Manly, B. F. J.

Stage-structured populations : sampling, analysis, and simulation

QH352 .M35 1990

May, R. M.

Stability and complexity in model ecosystems

QH541.15.M3 M38 1974

May, R. M.

Theoretical ecology : principles and applications

QH541 .T49

Maynard Smith, J.

Mathematical ideas in biology

QH324 .S63 1971

Maynard Smith, J.

Models in ecology

QH541 .S59

Meinhardt, H.

Models of biological pattern formation

QH491 .M43

Murray, J. D.

Mathematical Biology

QH323.5 .M88 1993

Okubo, A.

Diffusion and ecological problems: mathematical models

QH541.15.M3 O38

O'Neill, R. V. et al.

A hierarchical concept of ecosystems

QH541 .H525 1986

Othmer, H. G. et al.

Case studies in mathematical modeling--ecology, physiology, and cell biology

QH541.15.M3 C37 1997

Pahl-Wostl, C

The dynamic nature of ecosystems

QH541 .P33 1995

Pakes, A. G.

Mathematical ecology of plant species competition:

a class of deterministic models for binary mixtures of plant genotypes

QK911 .P35 1990

Patten, B. C.

Systems analysis and simulation in ecology.

QH541.15.M3 S9

Patten, B. C. and Jorgensen, S. E.

Complex ecology : the part-whole relation in ecosystems

QH541.15.S5 C65 1995

Pielou, E. C.

Mathematical Ecology

N QH541.15.M3 P54 1977

Prusinkiewicz, P.

Lindenmayer systems, fractals, and plants

QH491 .P78 1989

Renshaw, E.

Modelling biological populations in space and time

QH352 .R46 1991

Rietman, E.

Exploring the geometry of nature : computer modeling of chaos, fractals, cellular automata, and neural networks

QA845 .R48 1989

Rietman, E.

Creating artificial life : self-organization

Q335 .R54 1993

Roberts, F. S.

Discrete Mathematical Models, with applications to Social, Biological and Environmental Problems

QH323.5 .R57 1989

Robertson, D.

Eco-logic : logic-based approaches to ecological modelling

QH541.15.S5 E26 1991

Roughgarden, J., R. M. May, and S. A. Levin

Perspectives in ecological theory

QH541 .P425 1989

Schmitt, C. J.

Habitat suitability index model for brook trout in streams of the southern Blue Ridge province <microform> : surrogate

variables, model evaluation, and suggested improvements

I 49.89/2:93(18)

Schroeder, R. L.

Tests of a habitat suitability model for black-capped

chickadees

I 49.89/2:90 (10)

Shukla, J. B. , T. G. Hallam, and V. Capasso

Mathematical modelling of environmental and ecological systems

QH541.15.M3 I48 1985

Smitalova, K.and S. Stefan

A Mathematical Treatment of Dynamical Models in Biological Science

QH323.5 .S57 1991

Starfield T. M and A. L. Bleloch

Building models for conservation and wildlife management

QH75 .S664 1986

Starfield, A. M., K. A. Smith, and A. L. Bleloch

How to model it: problem solving for the computer age

QA76.9 C65 S74 1990

Swartzman, G. L. and

S. P. Kaluzny

Ecological simulation primer

QH541.15.M3 S89 1987

Thornley, J. H. M.

Grassland dynamics : an ecosystem simulation model

QH87.7 .T48 1998

Tilman, D.

Plant strategies and the dynamics and structure of plant communities

QK910 .T55 1988

Toates, F. M.

Animal behaviour : a systems approach

QL751 .T63

Tuljapurkar, S.

Population dynamics in variable environments

HB849.51 .T85 1990

Turner, M. and R. Gardner

Quantitative methods in landscape ecology : the analysis and interpretation of landscape heterogeneity

QH541.5.L35 Q36 1991

Verner, J., Morrison, M. L., Ralph, C. J.

Wildlife 2000 : modeling habitat relationships of terrestrial vertebrates

QL756 .W53 1986

Waldrop, M. M.

Complexity: the emerging science at the edge of order and chaos

Q175 .W258 1992

Watt, K. E. F.

Systems analysis in ecology

QH541 .W3

White, I. D.

Environmental systems : an introductory text

GB54.5 .W48 1992

Wit, C. T. de.

Simulation of ecological processes

QH541.15.S5 W57 1978

Wolfram, S.

Cellular automata and complexity

QA267.5.C45 W65 1994


Computer programs and videos available in the library:

Bunde, A. and S. Havlin

Fractals in science

Q160.2.F73 1994

Kocak, H.

Differential and difference equations through computer experiments

QA371 .K5854 1989

 

Real life statistics <videorecording> : simulating ecosystems.

QH541.15.S72 R4 1996

 

That's life. field ecology simulation

574.5 Tha

 

Odell Lake

570 Ode




Other Books of Interest not at UCF library (Some in Instructor's library):

Anderson, R. M. and R. M. May

The dynamics of human host-parasite systems

Berg, H. C.

Random walks in biology

Bossel, H.

Modeling and simulation

Cartwright, T. J.

Modeling the world in a spreadsheet: environmental simulation on a microcomputer

Cullen, M. R.

Linear models in biology

DeAngelis, D. L., W. M. Post, and C. C. Travis

Positive feedback in natural systems

DeAngelis, D. L. and L. J. Gross

Individual-based models and approaches in ecology

Edelstein-Keshet, L.

Mathematical models in biology

France, J. and J. H. M. Thornley

Mathematical models in agriculture

Gotelli, N. J.

A primer of ecology

Hannon, B. and R. Matthias

Dynamic modeling*

Hannon, B. and R. Matthias

Modeling dynamic biological systems*

Hastings, A.

Population biology: concepts and models

Hastings, H. M. and G. Sugihara

Fractals: a user's guide for the natural sciences

Jeffries, C.

Mathematical modeling in ecology--a workbook for students

Jorgensen, S. E.

Fundamentals of ecological modelling 2nd Edition

Jorgensen, S. E.

Integration of ecosystem theories: A pattern

Logofet, D. O

Matrices and graphs--stability problems in mathematical ecology

Lucas, W. F.

Modules in applied mathematics

Marcus-Roberts, H. and M. Thompson

Life science models

Maynard Smith, J.

Evolution and the theory of games

Meir, E.

Ecobeaker 1.0: an ecological simulation program

Mitsch, W. J., M. Straskraba, S. E. Jorgensen

Wetland modelling

Nisbet, R. M. and W. S. C. Gurney

Modelling fluctuating populations

Pielou, E. C.

Population and community ecology: principles and methods

Rose, M. R.

Quantitative ecological theory--an introduction to basic models

Roughgarden, J.

Primer of ecological theory

Shugart, H. H. and R. V. O'Neill

Systems ecology

Shugart, H. H.

A theory of forest dynamics

Sigmund, K.

Games of life : explorations in ecology, evolution, and behaviour

Soltzburg, L. J

The dynamic environment*

Thornley, J. H. M. and I. R. Johnson

Plant and crop modelling

Tuchinsky, P. M.

Man in competition with the spruce budworm--An application of differential equations

Vandermeer, J. H.

Elementary mathematical ecology

Yodzis, P.

Introduction to theoretical ecology

*Has STELLA examples


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