Search is a ubiquitous property of life. Although diverse domains have worked on search
problems largely in isolation, recent trends across disciplines indicate that the formal …

Mathematical modelling of chemotaxis (the movement of biological cells or organisms in
response to chemical gradients) has developed into a large and diverse discipline, whose …

In this paper, a new stochastic optimizer, which is called slime mould algorithm (SMA), is
proposed based on the oscillation mode of slime mould in nature. The proposed SMA has …

In this paper, we study the following initial-boundary value problem of a three-species
spatial food chain model {ut= d 1 Δ u+ u (1− u)− b 1 uv, x∈ Ω, t> 0 vt= d 2 Δ v−∇⋅(ξ v∇ u)+ …

All organisms, especially terrestrial plants and other sessile species, interact mainly with
their neighbors, but neighborhoods can differ in composition because of dispersal and …

Many ecological phenomena may be modelled using apparently random processes
involving space (and possibly time). Such phenomena are classified as spatial in their …

The story of this edition is a testament to an almost legendary gure in theoretical ecology
and to the in uence his work and charisma has had on the eld. It is also a story that can only …

Most of the fundamental elements of ecology, ranging from individual behavior to species
abundance, diversity, and population dynamics, exhibit spatial variation. Partial differential …

Area‐restricted search is the capacity to change search effort adaptively in response to
resource encounters or expectations, from directional exploration (global, extensive search) …

Detailed observation of the movement of individual animals offers the potential to
understand spatial population processes as the ultimate consequence of individual …