Book ID: 92296
Kokko, Hanna
Modelling for Field Biologists and Other Interesting People. 2007. 43 line figs. 3 halftones. XII, 230 p. gr8vo. Hardcover.
Contents (partly): Modelling philosophy, where we get momentarily lost in a forest, but emerge intact/ Population genetics,where we find males that treat females quite badly, and some salmon getcaught/ Quantitative genetics, where we learn to handle a bewilderingnumber of loci, after which a whiff of predators does not scare us atall/ Optimization methods, where spiders get quite exhausted, and theauthor confesses an embarrassing mistake from the distant past/ Dynamicoptimization, where we travel north, and learn how to survive the winter/ Game theory, where we get caught in a traffic jam, and end upwondering where all those trees came from/ etc.