Diffusive and nondiffusive population models
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The modeling of populations is of great importance in ecology and economy, for instance, to describe predator-prey and competition interactions, to predict the dynamics of cell divisions and infectious diseases, and to manage renewable resources (harvesting). Population models describe the change of the number of species due to birth, death, and movement from position to position (in space) or from stage to stage (age, size, etc.). In this short survey, we review some mathematical results for deterministic and continuous population models. We concentrate on the following model classes:
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تاریخ انتشار 2009