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Introduction to Population Biology
Institute for Theoretical Physics, UNESP, São Paulo, Brazil
Outline
This is a course on basic population biology, with applications to ecology and epidemiology. You will find the previous year's lectures on http://www.ictp-saifr.org/mathbio2
Topics
Follow the links for handouts and more additional material of each topic
- Predation
- Competition
- Epidemiology
- Spatial Ecology
- Alternative States
Suggested Readings
If you have a background in physics or mathematics
J. Murray : Mathematical Biology I ( Springer, 2002), chapters 1, 3 10 and 11.
N. F. Britton, Essential Mathematical Biology (Springer,2003).
If you have a background in biology
N. J. Gotelli, A Primer of Ecology (Sinauer, 2001, third edition), chapters 1, 2, 5 and 6
If you think that you need to revise your knowledge on calculus, you may want to take a look at
S. P. Otto and T. Day, A Biologist’s Guide to Mathematical Modeling in Ecology and Evolution (Princeton U. Press, 2007).
Venue and further information
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