I. Introduction -- Ecology: An Idiosyncratic Overview -- II. Physiological and Behavioral Ecology -- Biophysical Ecology: An Introduction to Organism Response to Environment -- An Overview of Foraging Theory -- III. Population Ecology -- Population Dynamics in a Homogeneous Environment -- The Formulation of Age-Structure Models -- Analysis of Age-Structure Models -- Random Walk Models of Movement and Their Implications -- Stochastic Population Theory: Birth and Death Processes -- Stochastic Population Theory: Diffusion Processes -- IV. Communities and Ecosystems -- Community Dynamics in a Homogeneous Environment -- Interacting Age Structured Populations -- Population Models and Community Structure in Heterogeneous Environments -- Stochastic Community Theory: A Partially Guided Tour -- A Theoretical Basis for Modeling Element Cycling -- V. Applied Mathematical Ecology -- Bioeconomics and the Management of Renewable Resources -- Population Biology of Microparasitic Infections -- Author Index