## Idea ## **Population biology** is a study of populations of organisms, especially the regulation of population size, life history traits, and extinction. ## Reference ## A good introduction to mathematical models in this field is: * Horst R. Thieme, _Mathematics in Population Biology_, Princeton Series in Theoretical and Computational Biology, Princeton U. Press, Princeton, 2003. Easy and comprehensive on population dynamics, diseases, genetics, evolution, species dispersal, molecular and cell biology, pattern formation: * Nicholas F. Britton, _Essential Mathematical Biology_, Springer Undergraduate Mathematics series, Springer 2005. See also [[Mathematical biology]], [[Quantitative ecology]], [[Population]]. category: ecology, methodology