Clustering of diffusing organisms
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Clustering of diffusing organisms.
Recently, a "Brownian bugs" model has been proposed as a possible explanation for the clustering of organisms such as planktons [W.R. Young, A.J. Roberts, and G. Stuhne, Nature (London) 412, 328 (2001)]. In this model, diffusing organisms die and give birth with equal probabilities and are independent of each other. The clustering phenomenon is due to the discreteness of birth and death events ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Physical Review E
سال: 2002
ISSN: 1063-651X,1095-3787
DOI: 10.1103/physreve.66.052902