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A basic method of analyzing particulate gene systems is the proba bilistic and statistical analyses. We must not forget the experimental works of Johanson (1909) and Nilsson-Ehle (1909) which supported Mendelian gene theory.

After a general introduction, reviewing the empirical and theoretical discoveries about food webs, the second portion of the book shows that community food webs obey several striking phenomenological regularities.

Intuition is a principal source of ideas for the construction and investigation of models, but it can replace neither clear formulation nor careful analysis.

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 1986.

According to a recent report of the United States Census Bureau, world population as of June 30, 1983, was estimated at about 4. Another way of viewing the yearly increase in world population is to compare it to 234 million, the estimated current population of the United States.

In May 1984 the Swedish Council for Scientific Research convened a small group of investigators at the scientific research station at Abisko, Sweden, for the purpose of examining various conceptual and mathematical views of the evolution of complex systems.

In an article in the American Scientist in 1963, Maruyama called for increased attention to this topic, noting that processes of change could occur when a "deviation in anyone component of the system caused deviations in other components that acted back on the first component to reinforce of amplify the initial deviation."