Stochastic Foundations in Movement Ecology

Part I. Theoretical Foundations

1. Elements of Probability Theory
Vicenç Méndez, Daniel Campos, Frederic Bartumeus

2. Introduction to Stochastic Processes
Vicenç Méndez, Daniel Campos, Frederic Bartumeus

Part II. Stochastic Modelling for Dispersal and Movement

3. Microscopic, Mesoscopic and Macroscopic Descriptions of Dispersal
Vicenç Méndez, Daniel Campos, Frederic Bartumeus

4. Anomalous Diffusion and Continuous-Time Random Walks
Vicenç Méndez, Daniel Campos, Frederic Bartumeus

5. Reaction-Dispersal Models and Front Propagation
Vicenç Méndez, Daniel Campos, Frederic Bartumeus

6. Random Search Strategies
Vicenç Méndez, Daniel Campos, Frederic Bartumeus

Part III. Selected Applications

7. Cell Motility
Vicenç Méndez, Daniel Campos, Frederic Bartumeus

8. Biological Invasions
Vicenç Méndez, Daniel Campos, Frederic Bartumeus

9. Biological Searches and Random Animal Motility
Vicenç Méndez, Daniel Campos, Frederic Bartumeus

Keywords: Physics, Socio- and Econophysics, Population and Evolutionary Models, Theoretical Ecology/Statistics, Genetics and Population Dynamics, Complexity, Complex Systems