Nonlinear Dynamics Of Interacting Populations
Bazykin, Alexander D / Khibnik, Alexander I / Krauskopf, Bernd
This book contains a systematic study of ecological communities of two or three interacting populations. Starting from the Lotka-Volterra system, various regulating factors are considered, such as rates of birth and death, predation and competition. The different factors can have a stabilizing or a destabilizing effect on the community, and their interplay leads to increasingly complicated behavior. Studying and understanding this path to grea...