This volume develops a unifying approach to population studies emphasising the interplay between modelling and experimentation. Throughout mathematicians and biologists are provided with a framework within which population dynamics can be fully explored and understood. Aspects of population dynamics covered include birth-death and logistic processes competition and predator-prey relationships chaos reaction time-delays fluctuating environments spatial systems velocities of spread epidemics and spatial branching structures. Both deterministic and stochastic models are considered. Whilst the more theoretically orientated sections will appeal to mathematical biologists the material is presented so that readers with little mathematical expertise can bypass these without losing the main flow of the text. Language: English