Incorporating environmental stochasticity within a biological population model |
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Authors: | Varughese M M Fatti L P |
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Institution: | aSchool of Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa |
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Abstract: | The birth and death transition rates for a population are modelled as functions of both the population size and the environmental condition. An assortment of important theoretical results and techniques that can be utilized to analyze such a population’s behaviour is covered. Consequently, these results and techniques are used to study two examples. Firstly, we study a population with a stable equilibrium state, whose per capita birth and death rates are linearly related to the environmental condition. (The environmental condition in turn is modelled as an Ornstein–Uhlenbeck process.) Secondly, we study a population affected by two interdependent environmental factors. |
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Keywords: | Population Environment Environmental stochasticity Stochastic processes Ecology Modelling |
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