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Muscles --- Zoology and Animal Sciences. Zoology --- Animal Physiology and Biochemistry --- Muscle Physiology, Animal Movement --- Muscle Physiology, Animal Movement. --- Muscles.

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Do the movements of animals, including humans, follow patterns that can be described quantitatively by simple laws of motion? If so, then why? These questions have attracted the attention of scientists in many disciplines, and stimulated debates ranging from ecological matters to queries such as 'how can there be free will if one follows a law of motion?' This is the first book on this rapidly evolving subject, introducing random searches and foraging in a way that can be understood by readers without a previous background on the subject. It reviews theory as well as experiment, addresses open problems and perspectives, and discusses applications ranging from the colonization of Madagascar by Austronesians to the diffusion of genetically modified crops. The book will interest physicists working in the field of anomalous diffusion and movement ecology as well as ecologists already familiar with the concepts and methods of statistical physics.

Appetitive Behavior --- Biophysical Phenomena --- Ecology --- Models, Statistical --- Animal behavior --- Home range (Animal geography) --- Biological invasions --- Animal ecology --- Invasions biologiques --- Mathematical models --- Modèles mathématiques --- Appetitive Behavior. --- Biophysical Phenomena. --- Ecology. --- Models, Statistical. --- Mathematical models. --- Modèles mathématiques --- Animals --- Zoology --- Bio-invasions --- Bioinvasions --- Invasions, Biological --- Natural selection --- Population biology --- Animal movement patterns --- Animal movements (Animal geography) --- Home ranges (Animal geography) --- Movement patterns of animals --- Movements of animals (Animal geography) --- Range, Home (Animal geography) --- Ranges, Home (Animal geography) --- Zoogeography --- Animals, Habits and behavior of --- Behavior, Animal --- Ethology --- Animal psychology --- Ethologists --- Psychology, Comparative --- Home range --- Behavior

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The cooperation between plankton biologists and fluid dynamists has enhanced our knowledge of life within the plankton communities in ponds, lakes, and seas. This book assembled contributions on plankton–flow interactions, with an emphasis on syntheses and/or predictions. However, a wide range of novel insights, reasonable scenarios, and founded critiques are also considered in this book.

white sea --- arctic ocean --- net tow --- turbulence avoidance --- feeding mode --- National Centers for Environmental Information --- European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts --- plankton --- turbulence --- data analysis --- copepod --- numerical simulation --- immersed boundary method --- multi-scale simulations --- form-function relation --- Kolmogorov --- chemosensory --- signaling --- zooplankton --- jellyfish --- hydrodynamics --- escape behavior --- Acartia tonsa --- copepods --- cruising --- escape swimming --- kinematics --- power --- cost of transport --- locomotion --- reorientation --- swimming microorganism --- nutrient patchiness --- phytoplankton --- surge uptake --- nutrient depletion --- turbulent history --- microplastics --- swimming behavior --- imaging --- Temora turbinata --- propulsion --- rotational physics --- convergent evolution --- torque --- moment of inertia --- animal movement --- plankton jumping --- impulsively generated viscous vortex ring --- impulsive Stokeslet --- impulsive stresslet --- elastic collision --- Froude propulsion efficiency --- added mass coefficient --- n/a

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Partial differential equations (PDEs) have been used in theoretical ecology research for more than eighty years. Nowadays, along with a variety of different mathematical techniques, they remain as an efficient, widely used modelling framework; as a matter of fact, the range of PDE applications has even become broader. This volume presents a collection of case studies where applications range from bacterial systems to population dynamics of human riots.

Research & information: general --- Mathematics & science --- cross diffusion --- Turing patterns --- non-constant positive solution --- animal movement --- correlated random walk --- movement ecology --- population dynamics --- taxis --- telegrapher’s equation --- invasive species --- linear determinacy --- population growth --- mutation --- spreading speeds --- travelling waves --- optimal control --- partial differential equation --- invasive species in a river --- continuum models --- partial differential equations --- individual based models --- plant populations --- phenotypic plasticity --- vegetation pattern formation --- desertification --- homoclinic snaking --- front instabilities --- Evolutionary dynamics --- G-function --- Quorum Sensing --- Public Goods --- semi-linear parabolic system of equations --- generalist predator --- pattern formation --- Turing instability --- Turing-Hopf bifurcation --- bistability --- regime shift --- carrying capacity --- spatial heterogeneity --- Pearl-Verhulst logistic model --- reaction-diffusion model --- energy constraints --- total realized asymptotic population abundance --- chemostat model --- social dynamics --- wave of protests --- long transients --- ghost attractor --- prey–predator --- diffusion --- nonlocal interaction --- spatiotemporal pattern --- Allen–Cahn model --- Cahn–Hilliard model --- spatial patterns --- spatial fluctuation --- dynamic behaviors --- reaction-diffusion --- spatial ecology --- stage structure --- dispersal

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Partial differential equations (PDEs) have been used in theoretical ecology research for more than eighty years. Nowadays, along with a variety of different mathematical techniques, they remain as an efficient, widely used modelling framework; as a matter of fact, the range of PDE applications has even become broader. This volume presents a collection of case studies where applications range from bacterial systems to population dynamics of human riots.

Research & information: general --- Mathematics & science --- cross diffusion --- Turing patterns --- non-constant positive solution --- animal movement --- correlated random walk --- movement ecology --- population dynamics --- taxis --- telegrapher’s equation --- invasive species --- linear determinacy --- population growth --- mutation --- spreading speeds --- travelling waves --- optimal control --- partial differential equation --- invasive species in a river --- continuum models --- partial differential equations --- individual based models --- plant populations --- phenotypic plasticity --- vegetation pattern formation --- desertification --- homoclinic snaking --- front instabilities --- Evolutionary dynamics --- G-function --- Quorum Sensing --- Public Goods --- semi-linear parabolic system of equations --- generalist predator --- pattern formation --- Turing instability --- Turing-Hopf bifurcation --- bistability --- regime shift --- carrying capacity --- spatial heterogeneity --- Pearl-Verhulst logistic model --- reaction-diffusion model --- energy constraints --- total realized asymptotic population abundance --- chemostat model --- social dynamics --- wave of protests --- long transients --- ghost attractor --- prey–predator --- diffusion --- nonlocal interaction --- spatiotemporal pattern --- Allen–Cahn model --- Cahn–Hilliard model --- spatial patterns --- spatial fluctuation --- dynamic behaviors --- reaction-diffusion --- spatial ecology --- stage structure --- dispersal