On the stability and controllability of certain biological systems

CHAPTER 1: Predator-prey interactions: enlarging Lotka-Volterra model CHAPTER 2: Epidemiology: studying disease dynamics CHAPTER 3: Ecoepidemiolgy: managing pest populations by inflicting a disease in the pest Appendix A Stability results Appendix B Compound matrices Appendix C Impulsive differential equations Appendix D Partial derivatives of O,z and f