Ebook: Dispersal, individual movement and spatial ecology : a mathematical perspective

Pt -- I. Individual animal movement -- Stochastic optimal foraging theory -- Lévy or not? analysing positional data from animal movement paths -- Beyond optimal searching : recent developments in the modelling of animal movement patterns as Lévy walks -- pt -- II. From individuals to populations -- The mathematical analysis of biological aggregation and dispersal : progress, problems and perspectives -- Hybrid modelling of individual movement and collective behaviour -- From individual movement rules to population level patterns : the case of central-place foragers -- Transport and anisotropic diffusion models for movement in oriented habitats -- Incorporating complex foraging of zooplankton in models : role of micro- and mesoscale processes in macroscale patterns -- pt -- III. Populations, communities and ecosystems -- Life on the move : modeling the effects of climate-driven range shifts with integrodifference equations -- Control of competitive bioinvasion -- Destruction and diversity : effects of habitat loss on ecological communities -- Emergence and propagation of patterns in nonlocal reaction-diffusion equations arising in the theory of speciation -- Numerical study of pest population size at various diffusion rates