Diversity of Functional Traits and Interactions

Akihiko Mougi is an associate professor in the Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences at the Shimane University. He completed his Ph.D. at Hokkaido University and did postdoctoral work at the Kyushu University and Ryukoku University. His research uses mathematical models to understand ecological and evolutionary dynamics of biological communities and the stability of ecosystems.

• Part 1. Intra-specific trait diversity.- Chapter 1. Incorporating ontogenetic niche shifts into hybrid community dynamics.- Chapter 2. Effects of rapid evolution on population cycles and extinction in predator-prey systems.-  Chapter 3. The possibility that the evolution of sexual traits stabilizes ecological communities.- Chapter 4. Spatiality and community stability.- Part 2.  Inter-specific trait and functional diversity.- Chapter 5. Direct and Indirect Effects of Facilitation and Competition in Ecological.-  Chapter 6. Mathematical modeling on microbes and their roles in community and ecosystem: how to handle microbial diversity in modeling?.- Part 3. Diversity of inter-specific interaction.- Chapter 7. Ecology and evolution of density-dependence.- Chapter 8. Interaction-type diversity and community stability.- Part 4. A novel approach in community ecology.- Chapter 9. Forecasting ecological time series using empirical dynamic modeling: a tutorial for simplex projection and S-map.