John Pastor 
Mathematical Ecology of Populations and Ecosystems [EPUB ebook] 

Prologue.
Preface.
Acknowledgments.
Part I: Preliminaries.
1. What is Mathematical Ecology and Why Should We Do It?.
2. Mathematical Toolbox.
Part II: Populations.
3. Homogeneous Populations: Exponential and Geometric Growth and
Decay.
4. Age- and Stage-structured Linear Models: Relaxing The
Assumption Of Population Homogeneity.
5. Nonlinear Models of Single Populations: The Continuous Time
Logistic Model.
6. Discrete Logistic Growth, Oscillations, and Chaos.
7. Harvesting and the Logistic Model.
8. Predators and their Prey.
9. Competition between Two Species, Mutualism, and Species
Invasions.
10. Multispecies Community and Food Web Models.
Part III: Ecosystems.
11. Inorganic Resources, Mass Balance, Resource Uptake, and
Resource Use Efficiency.
12. Litter Return, Nutrient Cycling, and Ecosystem
Stability.
13. Consumer Regulation of Nutrient Cycling.
14. Stoichiometry and Linked Element Cycles.
Part IV: Populations and Ecosystems in Space and
Time.
15. Transitions between Populations and States in
Landscapes.
16. Diffusion, Advection, the Spread of Populations and
Resources, and the Emergence of Spatial Patterns.
Appendix: Mat Lab Commands for Equilibrium and Stability Analysis
of Multi-compartment Models by Solving the Jacobian and its
Eigenvalues.
References.
Index