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Cambridge Studies in Adaptive Dynamics

The modern synthesis of the first half of the twentieth century reconciled Darwinian selection with Mendelian genetics. However, it failed to incorporate ecology and hence did not develop into a predictive theory of long-term evolution. It was not until the 1970s that evolutionary game theory allowed the consequences of frequency-dependent ecological interactions to be analyzed. Adaptive Dynamics extends evolutionary game theory by describing the dynamics of adaptive trait substitutions and by analyzing the evolutionary implications of complex ecological settings.

The Cambridge Studies in Adaptive Dynamics highlight these novel concepts and techniques for ecological and evolutionary research. The series is designed to help graduate students and researchers to use the new methods for their own studies. Volumes in the series provide coverage of both empirical observations and theoretical insights, offering natural points of departure for various groups of readers.

The Geometry of Ecological Interactions: Simplifying Spatial Complexity Edited by Ulf Dieckmann, Richard Law, and Johan A.J. Metz Cambridge University Press (May 2000). More information

Adaptive Dynamics of Infectious Diseases: In Pursuit of Virulence Management Edited by Ulf Dieckmann, Johan A.J. Metz, M.W. Sabelis, and K. Sigmund Cambridge University Press (2002). More information

Adaptive Speciation Edited by Ulf Dieckmann, Michael Doebeli, Johan A. J. Metz, and Diethard Tautz Cambridge University Press (2004). More information

Evolutionary Conservation Biology Edited by Régis Ferrière, Ulf Dieckmann, and Denis Couvet Cambridge University Press (2004). More information

Branching Processes by Patsy Haccou, Peter Jagers, and Vladimir Vatutin Cambridge University Press (2005). More information

Other Books

Mathematical Representations of the Dynamics of Animal Behaviour An Expository Survey By Johan A. J. Metz Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam (1981). More information

Lecture Notes in Biomathematics The Dynamics of Physiologically Structured Populations Edited by Johan A. J. Metz and Odo Diekmann Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg (1986). More information

Evolutionary Games and Population Dynamics By Josef Hofbauer and Karl Sigmund Cambridge University Press (1998). More information

Disease Evolution Edited by Zhilan Feng, Ulf Dieckmann, and Simon Levin DIMACS Series in Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science (2006). More information

Analysis of Evolutionary Processes: The Adaptive Dynamics Approach and Its Applications By Fabio Dercole and Sergio Rinaldi Princeton Series in Theoretical and Computational Biology (2008). More information

In Preparation

Elements of Adaptive Dynamics.
Edited by Ulf Dieckmann and Johan A.J. Metz
Cambridge University Press

Fisheries-induced Adaptive Change.
Edited by Ulf Dieckmann, Olav Rune Godø, Mikko Heino, and Jarle Mork

Introduction to Adaptive Dynamics.
by Ulf Dieckmann and Johan A.J. Metz

If you are interested in one of the listed volumes or would like to contribute to the series, please contact us at eep@iiasa.ac.at.

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