This book explores the theory and methods of systems analysis and computer modeling as applied to problems in ecology and natural resource management. It reflects the problems and conflicts between competing uses of limited space and the need for quantitative predictors of the outcome of various management strategies.

Bill Grant has taught ecological modeling in the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences (WFSC) at Texas A&M University since 1976, has served on the Board of Governors and as President of the International Society for Ecological Modeling, and has been Associate Editor of the international journal Ecological Modelling since 1997.

Ellen K. Pedersen is the author of Ecology and Natural Resource Management: Systems Analysis and Simulation, published by Wiley.

Sandra L. Marín is the author of Ecology and Natural Resource Management: Systems Analysis and Simulation, published by Wiley.