| Preface | |
| List of Contributors | |
| Pt. I | Single Species Dynamics in Spatial Habitats | |
| 1 | Population Dynamics in Spatial Habitats | 3 |
| 2 | Predictive and Practical Metapopulation Models: The Incidence Function Approach | 21 |
| 3 | Variability, Patchiness, and Jump Dispersal in the Spread of an Invading Population | 46 |
| Pt. II | Parasites, Pathogens, and Predators in a Spatially Complex World | |
| 4 | The Dynamics of Spatially Distributed Host-Parasitoid Systems | 75 |
| 5 | Basic Epidemiological Concepts in a Spatial Context | 111 |
| 6 | Measles: Persistence and Synchronicity in Disease Dynamics | 137 |
| 7 | Genetics and the Spatial Ecology of Species Interactions: The Silene-Ustilago System | 158 |
| Pt. III | Competition in a Spatial World | |
| 8 | Competition in Spatial Habitats | 185 |
| 9 | Biologically Generated Spatial Pattern and the Coexistence of Competing Species | 204 |
| 10 | Habitat Destruction and Species Extinctions | 233 |
| 11 | Local and Regional Processes as Controls of Species Richness | 250 |
| Pt. IV | The Final Analysis: Does Space Matter or Not? And How Will We Test Our Ideas? | |
| 12 | Theories of Simplification and Scaling of Spatially Distributed Processes | 271 |
| 13 | Production Functions from Ecological Populations: A Survey with Emphasis on Spatially Implicit Models | 296 |
| 14 | Challenges and Opportunities for Empirical Evaluation of "Spatial Theory" | 318 |
| References | 333 |
| Index | 365 |
