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"This work deals with the ecological effect a species can have when it moves into an environment that it has not previously occupied (commonly referred to as an ""invasion""). It presents an accessible introduction to a highly complex area - the modelling of biological invasions. It provides up-to-date theories and models developed from studies into this crucial area. It also includes data and examples from biological case studies showing how the models can be applied to the study of invasions, whether dealing with AIDS, the European rabbit, or prickly pear cactuses."

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The authors have collaborated on a wonderful exposition of how biological invasions take place. They review many instances of invasions and show how the spread of an invasion can be predicted by mathematical models. The book is beautifully written and exhibits a lovely balance between mathematical and empirical topics. Shigesada and Kawasaki present ten chapters in a length that allows depth while avoiding encyclopedic drudgery. . . . The authors are distinguished biologists who have contributed much of the original work about modeling invasions. Enough mathematical detail is presented in appendixes to allow all the results in the book to be rederived, making the book completely self-contained. It is a 'must buy' for any ecologist, ecological economist, conservation biologist or wildlife manager. --The Quarterly Review of Biology<br> Biological Invasions: Theory and Practice focuses on one of the major topics in mathematical ecology--the dispersion of organisms from one locality to another. . . . The book consists of three major parts. The first two chapters present an introduction to the study of biological invasions, describe data on the nature of such invasions in different plants and animals, and discuss general patterns that result from analyzing the range of variation in the natural world. . . . The second major part of the book provides details on general models that have been developed to try to reproduce and explain both these general patterns of species expansion and the patterns observed for specific populations . . . The third part of the book introduces more topical issues related to dispersion and invasion of new environments when two or more species interact withone another. --American Journal of Human Biology<br>

<br> The authors have collaborated on a wonderful exposition of how biological invasions take place. They review many instances of invasions and show how the spread of an invasion can be predicted by mathematical models. The book is beautifully written and exhibits a lovely balance between mathematical and empirical topics. Shigesada and Kawasaki present ten chapters in a length that allows depth while avoiding encyclopedic drudgery. . . . The authors are distinguished biologists who have contributed much of the original work about modeling invasions. Enough mathematical detail is presented in appendixes to allow all the results in the book to be rederived, making the book completely self-contained. It is a 'must buy' for any ecologist, ecological economist, conservation biologist or wildlife manager. --The Quarterly Review of Biology<br>Biological Invasions: Theory and Practice focuses on one of the major topics in mathematical ecology--the dispersion of organisms from one locality to

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