chapter 1 Competition dynamics in a seasonally varying wetland -- chapter 2 Spatial dynamics of multitrophic communities -- chapter 3 Bistability Dynamics in Structured Ecological Models -- chapter 4 Modeling animal movement with diffusion -- chapter 5 Riverine landscapes: Ecology for an alternative geometry / chapter 6 Biological modeling with quiescent phases / chapter 7 Spatial scale and population dynamics in advective media -- chapter 8 Using multivariate state-space models to study spatial structure and dynamics -- chapter 9 Incorporating the spatial configuration of the habitat into ecology and evolutionary biology -- chapter 10 Metapopulation perspectives on the evolution of species’ niches -- chapter 11 Evolution of dispersal in heterogeneous landscapes -- chapter 12 Evolution of dispersal scale and shape in heterogeneous environments: A correlation equation approach -- chapter 13 Spatiotemporal dynamics of measles: Synchrony and persistence in a disease metapopulation / chapter 14 Rules of thumb for the control of vector-borne diseases in a spatial environment -- chapter 15 Modeling spatial spread of communicable diseases involving animal hosts -- chapter 16 Economically optimal management of a metapopulation -- chapter 17 Models of harvesting -- chapter 18 Spatial optimal control of renewable resource stocks.