Session

Population dynamics models with broader ecological, evolutionary, and social feedbacks

9 Jul 2018, 10:30
New Law School/--102 (University of Sydney)

New Law School/--102

University of Sydney

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Conveners

Population dynamics models with broader ecological, evolutionary, and social feedbacks: Part A

  • Atsushi Yamauchi (Kyoto University)

Population dynamics models with broader ecological, evolutionary, and social feedbacks: Part B

  • Atsushi Yamauchi (Kyoto University)

Description

Population dynamics are a traditional focus of mathematical biology, dating from the pioneering work of Volterra and Lotka. Importantly, the rates of change of species' abundances have broader consequences, affecting a diverse range of processes that includes evolutionary, behavioural, ecosystem and human dynamics. In this minisymposium, we highlight biomathematical models that couple population dynamics with these broader factors. Not only do these coupled feedback models help us understand the behaviour of broader systems, they are also essential to an accurate understanding of the population dynamics themselves, and how to manage them. Developments in this modelling space can help us understand essential characteristics of ecological systems, and also generate mathematically interesting complex system behaviours, which could stimulate new theoretical hypotheses.
In this session, three speakers will demonstrate population dynamic models that are integrated with intrinsic processes of organisms, i.e., evolution, behaviour and inducible responses. Two speakers will present about joint dynamics of populations and management policy, in the context of biodiversity conservation and agricultural damage control.

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