Mathematical Biology: An Introductory Course is a richly illustrated textbook in an exciting and fast growing field. Providing an in-depth look at the practical use of math modelling, it features exercises throughout that are drawn from a variety of bioscientific disciplines - population biology, developmental biology, physiology, epidemiology, and evolution, among others. It maintains a consistent level throughout so that graduate students can use it to gain a foothold into this dynamic research area.

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Inhalt
Continuous Population Models for Single Species.- Discrete Population Models for a Single Species.- Models for Interacting Populations.- Temperature-Dependent Sex Determination (TSD): Crocodilian Survivorship.- Modelling the Dynamics of Marital Interaction: Divorce Prediction and Marriage Repair.- Reaction Kinetics.- Biological Oscillators and Switches.- BZ Oscillating Reactions.- Perturbed and Coupled Oscillators and Black Holes.- Dynamics of Infectious Diseases: Epidemic Models and AIDS.- Reaction Diffusion, Chemotaxis, and Nonlocal Mechanisms.- Oscillator-Generated Wave Phenomena and Central Pattern Generators.- Biological Waves: Single-Species Models.- Use and Abuse of Fractals.