Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1. An Introduction to Size-Structured Population Models of Daphnia and Unification
(M. El-Doma, Faculty of Mathematical Sciences, University of Khartoum, Khartoum, Sudan)
Chapter 2. Well-Posedness of a System of Size-Structured Models for Several Daphnia Species Competing for a Single Resource
(M. El-Doma , Faculty of Mathematical Sciences, University of Khartoum, Khartoum, Sudan)
Chapter 3. The Steady States and the Principle of Linearized Stability for a System of Size-Structured Population Models of Several Daphnia Species Competing for a Single Resource
(M. El-Doma , Faculty of Mathematical Sciences, University of Khartoum, Khartoum, Sudan)
Chapter 4. Stability Results for a System of Size-Structured Models of Several Daphnia Species Competing for a Single Resource
(M. El-Doma, Faculty of Mathematical Sciences, University of Khartoum, Khartoum, Sudan)
Chapter 5. Daphnia magna as the Ultimate Classroom Organism: Implementing Scientific Investigations into School Practice
(Monique Meier and Claudia Wulff, Institute of Biology Education, University of Kassel, Kassel, Germany)
Chapter 6. Developmental Process of Defensive Morph in Daphnia pulex
(Hitoshi Miyakawa, Taisen Iguchi and Toru Miura, Okazaki Institute for Integrative Bioscience, National Institute for Basic Biology, National Institutes of Natural Sciences, Okazaki, Japan and others)
Chapter 7. Sexual Reproduction is a Key Element in the Life History Strategy of Water Fleas, Daphnia magna and Daphnia pulex : Casting a Spotlight on Male Induction and its Morphology (Chizue Hiruta, Kenji Toyota, Hitoshi Miyakawa, Eri Sumiya and Taisen Iguchi, Okazaki Institute for Integrative Bioscience, National Institute for Basic Biology, National Institutes of Natural Sciences, Myodaiji, Okazaki, Aichi, Japan and others)
Chapter 8. Applications of Daphnia magna in Ecotoxicological Tests in Water Treated by Advanced Oxidation Processes
(Almudena Aguinaco, J. Pablo Pocostales and Azahara Espejo, Departamento de Ingeniería Química y Química Física, Universidad de Extremadura, Badajoz, Spain)
Chapter 9. From Small to Large Scale: A Review of the Swimming Behaviour of Daphnia
(Marco Uttieri, Roberto Sandulli, Giancarlo Spezie and Enrico Zambianchi, Department of Sciences and Technologies, University of Naples, “Parthenope” Centro Direzionale di Napoli, Naples, Italy)
Chapter 10. Daphnia magna in Environmental Research: A Useful Tool for Ecotoxicological Evaluation of Conventional and Emerging Contaminants
(Marcela Boroski, Adriane Martins de Freitas and Carla Sirtori, Federal University of Latin-American Integration (UNILA) – Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Studies of the Environment (LEIMA), Foz do Iguaçu – Brazil and others)
Index
Reviews
“The book, as a research source, is well-written and is an excellent source of knowledge in the area of biomathematics. The first four chapters, of total ten chapters, are devoted to the study of Daphnia species from a mathematical point of view. The targeted audiences for this part of the book are researchers in applied mathematics, differential equations, biomathematics, mathematical biology, and mathematical ecology. The knowledge of ordinary differential equations, partial differential equations, integral equations and functional analysis are main required knowledge for understanding these chapters. The remaining six chapters are dedicated to studies of Daphnia species from a biological point of view. The targeted audiences for this part of the book are researchers in the area of biology, chemistry, ecology and environmental science..” – Aliakbar Montazer Haghighi, Ph. D., Professor and Head of Department of Mathematics, Editor-in-Chief and Co-Founder of AAM, An International Journal
