Analytic Models for the Patchy Spread of
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Benjamin M. Bolker
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Article
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1999
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Springer
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English
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Plant epidemiologists have long been concerned with the patchy nature of plant disease epidemics. This paper presents a new analytical model for patchy plant epidemics (and patchy dynamics in general), using a second-order approximation to capture the spatial dynamics in terms of the densities and s