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Reading list for 1996 Probability Intern Program
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A. From David Griffeath --

Durrett, R. (1995) Ten lectures on particle systems. Lectures on Probability
Theory, pp. 97-201. Springer Lecture Notes in Math 1608.

      Some recent developments in interacting stochastic systems, with examples
      drawn from biology and ecology. 

Edelstein-Keshet, L.  Mathematical Models in Biology.  Random House, New York,
1988

      My favorite reasonably current introduction to biomathematical modeling;
      see especially the first chapter and the last section of the book for
      discussion of discrete paradigms.

Ermentrout, G.B. and Edelstein-Keshet, L. (1993) Cellular automata approaches
to biological modeling. J. Theor. Biol. 160, 97-133 

      A nice survey of the beginnings of a CA biomathematics literature.

Toffoli, T. and Margolus, N. Cellular Automata Machines.
MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1987.

      The best overview of CA modeling.


B. From Tony Ives --

The following books provide good, basic reading on theoretical ecology.  
They provide a good introduction to the application of theory to basic
ecological problems. Prof. Ives' lectures will not deal with these topics in
detail, but the ecological background will be useful.

Gotelli, N. J. 1995.  A primer of ecology.  Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, MA.

Roughgarden, J., R. M. May, and S. A. Levin. 1989.  Perspectives in ecological
theory.  Princeton University Press, Princeton, N. J., USA. 


C. From Tom Kurtz --

Kurtz, Thomas G.  Relationships between stochastic and deterministic population
models,  Proceedings of the Heidelberg Conference on Models of Biological
Growth  and Spread, Lecture Notes in Biomathematics 38, Springer-Verlag, Berlin 
(1980), 449-467.


D. From Simon Levin, 
   Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
   Princeton University --

Gueron, S. and S.A. Levin (1995) The dynamics of group formation.  Mathematical
Biosciences 128:243-264.

Mollison, D. and S.A. Levin (1995) Spatial dynamics of parasitism. pp.
384-398. In: (B.T. Grenfell and A.P. Dobson, eds.) Ecology of Infectious
Diseases in Natural Populations. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, U.K.

Durrett, R. and S.A. Levin (1994) Stochastic spatial models: a user's guide to
ecological applications. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of
London, Series B  343:329-350.

Durrett, R. and S.A. Levin. (1994) The importance of being discrete (and
spatial).  Theoretical Population Biology 46:363-394.

In addition, Professor Levin has suplied a large number of preprints of
articles in press that will be made available to the participants at the
beginning of the program.


E. From Hal Caswell --
Caswell, H. and J.E. Cohen (1991) Disturbance, interspecific interaction and
diversity in metapopulations. Biol. J. Linnean Soc. 42, 193-218.

Caswell, H. and J.E. Cohen.  1996.  Red, white and blue: environmental variance
spectra and coexistence in metapopulations.  Journal of Theoretical Biology
176:301-316.

Caswell, H. and R.J. Etter. 1993.  Ecological interactions in patchy
environments:  from patch-occupancy models to cellular automata.  pp. 93-109
in S. Levin, T. Powell, and J.H. Steele (eds.) Patch Dynamics. 
Springer-Verlag.

Caswell, H. and J.E. Cohen.  1991.  Disturbance and diversity in
metapopulations.  Biological Journal fo the Linnean Society 42:193-218.

Depending on the background of the participants, I might also suggest some
older material:

Hutchinson, G.E. 1951.  Copepodology for the ornithologist.  Ecology
32:571-577.

Hutchinson, G.E. 1953.  The concept of pattern in ecology.  Proceedings of the
Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia.  105:1-12.

Huffaker, C.B. 1958. Experimental studies on predation: dispersion factors and
predator-prey oscillations.  Hilgardia 27:343-383.

Paine, R.T. 1966.  Food web complexity and species diversity.  American
Naturalist 100:65-75.

Cohen, J.E. 1970.  A Markov contingency table model for replicated
Lotka-Volterra systems at equilibrium.  American Naturalist 104:547-560.