Ecological modelers produce models with more and more details, leading to dynamical systems involving lots of variables. This chapter presents a set of methods which aim to extract from these complex models some submodels containing the same information but which are more tractable from the mathematical point of view. This “aggregation” of variables is based on time scales separation methods. The first part of the chapter is devoted to the presentation of mathematical aggregation methods for ODE’s, discrete models, PDE’s and DDE’s. The second part presents several applications in population and community dynamics.
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Auger, P., de la Parra, R. B., Poggiale, J.-C., Sánchez, E., & Nguyen-Huu, T. (2008). Aggregation of Variables and Applications to Population Dynamics (pp. 209–263). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-78273-5_5
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