"Timely! Dealing with topics that have become the leading edge of ecology in the last ten years."
C. S. Holling, Department of Zoology, University of Florida, USA

"The editors of this book have contributions from the best-known experts in the field of spatial complexity - every chapter has something to give the ecologist."
Mats Gyllenberg, Department of Mathematics, University of Turku, Finland

From the Back Cover
The fields of spatial ecology has expanded dramatically in the past few years. This volume, written by world experts in the field, gives detailed coverage of the main areas of development in spatial ecological theory. Integrating a perspective from field ecology with novel methods for simplifying spatial complexity, it offers a didactical treatment with a gradual increase in mathematical sophistication. In addition, the volume features introductions to those fundamental phenomena in spatial ecology where emerging spatial patterns influence ecological outcomes qualitatively as well as quantitatively. An appreciation and understanding of such systematic departures from standard, nonspatial models is required if ecological theory is to move on in the 21st century. Written for graduate students and researchers in theoretical, evolutionary, and spatial ecology, applied mathematics, and spatial statistics, this book is a ground-breaking treatment of modern spatial ecological theory.

Book Review in Ecology
"Dieckmann et al.'s The Geometry of Ecological Interactions is ... easily the best-edited volume I have ever read, reviewed, or taught from."

"There are two dozen chapters on every topic imaginable, and they flow together in a seamless and even stately manner that is altogether absent in most edited volumes in the ecological literature. The Geometry of Ecological Interactions is possessed of rhetorical, literary, and artistic qualities that are sadly (and self-destructively) neglected in modern scientific communication - especially edited volumes."