Resilience and Stability of Ecological and Social Systems

• Understanding Ecosystem Stability and Resilience through Mathematical Modeling.- The importance of life history and population interactions in population growth.- Habitat fragmentation.- Forest fires: fire management and the power law.- Material flow, task partition and self-organization in wasp societies.- Ants and Bees: common stomach regulation provide stability for societies.- Generalization of the common stomach: integral control at the supra-individual level.- Modeling techniques.

“The book provides a good overview of the set of aspects that must be considered in order to understand ecosystem dynamics. This is important for predicting the future functioning of ecological and social systems.” (Fatima T. Adylova, zbMATH 1458.92002, 2021)