Waltman, Paul Competition models in population biology. (English) Zbl 0572.92019 CBMS-NSF Regional Conference Series in Applied Mathematics 45. Philadelphia, PA: Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) (ISBN 0-89871-118-6). v, 77 p. (1983). Contents: Chapter 1, Single population growth models: 1.Introduction; 2. Logistic growth; 3. The simple chemostat. Chapter 2, Interacting populations: 1. Introduction; 2. The Lotka- Volterra competition model; 3. Competition in the chemostat; 4. A three- level food chain; 5. Bifurcation from a limit cycle; 6. Two predators competing for a renewable resource; 7. Two predators feeding on a prey growing in a chemostat. Chapter 3, Some deterministic problems in genetics: 1. Introduction; 2. Predator influence on the growth of a population with three genotypes; 3. A model of cystic fibrosis; 4. A parental selection problem. Cited in 1 ReviewCited in 62 Documents MSC: 92D25 Population dynamics (general) 92D10 Genetics and epigenetics Keywords:Single population growth models; Logistic growth; chemostat; Interacting populations; Lotka-Volterra competition model; three-level food chain; Bifurcation; limit cycle; competing for a renewable resource; model of cystic fibrosis; parental selection PDFBibTeX XMLCite \textit{P. Waltman}, Competition models in population biology. Philadelphia, PA: Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) (1983; Zbl 0572.92019)