Applications of Control Theory in Ecology: Proceedings of the Symposium on Optimal Control Theory held at the State University of New York, Syracuse, ... 10-16, 1986 (Lecture Notes in Biomathematics)

This volume forms a collection of papers dealing with (1) applications of the Markov decision process to the optimal clutch size layed by insects; (2) optimal life history strategies of annual plants using optimal control theory; (3) optimal foraging in a patchy environment, using impulse control theory; (4) extinction of fur seal, using differential games, and (5) evolutionary stable strategies, using a newly developed mathematical theory, based on differential games. Readers, both applied mathematicians and ecologists, interested in mathematical applications in biology and ecology will find fresh approaches to some fundamental questions in ecology and evolution. Basic mathematical skills are required, yet the applications are rather sophisticated.