This volume has been divided into two parts: Geometry and Applications. The geometry portion of the book relates primarily to geometric flows, laminations, integral formulae, geometry of vector fields on Lie groups, and osculation; the articles in the applications portion concer…
This brief presents a general unifying perspective on the fractional calculus. It brings together results of several recent approaches in generalizing the least action principle and the Eulerℓ́ℓLagrange equations to include fractional derivatives. The dependence of Lagrangians on…
Providing a graduate level introduction to various aspects of stochastic geometry, spatial statistics and random fields, this volume places a special emphasis on fundamental classes of models and algorithms as well as on their applications, for example in materials science, biol…
This book provides a synthetic view of an emerging area of ecology and biogeography, linking individual- and population-level processes to geographic distributions and biodiversity patterns. Problems in evolutionary ecology, macroecology, and biogeography are illuminated by this…
Social foraging theory
by Giraldeau, Luc-Alain, Caraco, Thomas
fromMonographs in behavior and ecology
Social foraging theory
by Giraldeau, Luc-Alain, Caraco, Thomas
fromMonographs in behavior and ecology
Social foraging theory
by Giraldeau, Luc-Alain, Caraco, Thomas
fromMonographs in behavior and ecology
Although there is extensive literature in the field of behavioral ecology that attempts to explain foraging of individuals, social foraging -- the ways in which animals search and compete for food in groups -- has been relatively neglected. This book redresses that situation by …
Advanced undergraduates and graduate students of electrical, chemical, mechanical, and environmental engineering will appreciate this text for a course in systems identification. In addition to the theoretical basis for mathematical modeling, it covers a variety of tried-and-tru…
