Stochastic model of population growth and spread

✍ Scribed by S.S. De

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1987
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 469 KB
• Volume: 49
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1522-9602
• DOI: 10.1016/s0092-8240(87)80032-0

✦ Synopsis

A stochastic model for the population regulated by logistic growth and spreading in a given region of two-or three-dimensional space has been introduced. For many-species population the interactions among the species have also been incorporated in this model. From the random variables that describe stochastic processes of a Wiener type the space-dependent random population densities have been formed and shown to satisfy the Langevin equations. The Fokker-Planck equation corresponding to these Langevin equations has been approximately solved for the transition probability of the population spreading and it has been found that such approximate expressions of the transition probability depend on the solutions of the deterministic equations of the diffusion model with logistic growth and interaction. Also, the stationary or equilibrium solutions of the Fokker-Planck equation together with the special discussion on the pattern of single-species population spreading have been made.