This book is a printed edition of the Special Issue "Progress in Mathematical Ecology" that was published in Mathematics

The Second Autumn Course on Mathematical Ecology was held at the Intern ational Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste, Italy in November and December of 198

The problems of interrelation between human economics and natural environment include scientific, technical, economic, demographic, social, political and other

There isprobably no more appropriate location to hold a course on mathematical ecology than Italy, the countryofVito Volterra, a founding father ofthe subject.

Although the spatial dimension of ecosystem dynamics is now widely recognized, the specific mechanisms behind species patterning in space are still poorly under