文件名称：动态生物学建模
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生态学
A mathematical model is a caricature, a deliberate oversimplification of reality. As such, its weaknesses may be transparent, its limitations obvious. This is not so, perhaps, with the invisible model a decision maker or researcher must inevitably use. But some form of model must be implicit in informed decision making, lest those decisions become random acts of whimsy, and some form of model similarly guides any experimental design. For all the limitations of any model, the likelihood is that the explicit consideration of assumptions is a step in the direction of better understanding and better decision making. One goal of this book is to develop that thesis, and to provide the reader the tools to become a better decision maker or better scientist. A more general goal is simply to make the power of dynamical simulation models available to the widest possible audience of researchers as aids to exploring the dynamics of ecosystems. The use of dynamic mathematical models in ecology is not new; indeed