Structured compartmental models in mathematical biology track age classes, stage classes,
or size classes of a population. Structured modeling becomes important when mechanistic …

A central goal of nutritional ecology is to understand how variation in food quality limits the
persistence of wild animal populations. Habitat suitability for browsing mammals is strongly …

To understand how foraging decisions impact individual fitness of herbivores, nutritional
ecologists must consider the complex in vivo dynamics of nutrient–nutrient interactions and …

Snowshoe hares (Lepus americanus Erxleben, 1777) fluctuate in 9–10 year cycles
throughout much of their North American range. These cycles show large variations in cyclic …

A necessary condition for a snowshoe hare population to cycle is reduced reproduction after
the population declines. But the cause of a cyclic snowshoe hare population's reduced …

Mathematical Models of Plant-Herbivore Interactions addresses mathematical models in the
study of practical questions in ecology, particularly factors that affect herbivory, including …

Many theories regarding the evolution of inducible resistance in plants have an implicit
spatial component, but most relevant population dynamic studies ignore spatial dynamics …

Tactile-feeding wading birds, such as wood storks and white ibises, require high densities of
prey such as small fishes and crayfish to support themselves and their offspring during the …

To investigate the effect of heterogeneity on the global dynamics of two SIR epidemic
models with general nonlinear incidence rate and infection delays, we formulate a multi …

A tradeoff between energy gain from foraging and safety from predation in refuges is a
common situation for many herbivores that are vulnerable to predation while foraging. This …