thumbnail

Multispecies lottery competition: a diffusion analysis

By:  and 
Edited by: S. Tuljapurkar and H. Caswell

Links

  • The Publications Warehouse does not have links to digital versions of this publication at this time
  • Download citation as: RIS | Dublin Core

Abstract

The lottery model is a stochastic competition model designed for space-limited communities of sedentary organisms. Examples of such communities include coral reef fishes, aquatic sessile organisms, and many plant communities. Explicit conditions for the coexistence of two species and the stationary distribution of the two-species model were determined previously using an approximation with a diffusion process. In this chapter, a diffusion approximation is presented for the multispecies model for communities of two or more species, and a stage-structured model is investigated. The stage-structured model would be more reasonable for communities of long-lived species such as trees in a forest in which recruitment and death rates depend on the age or stage of the individuals.
Publication type Book chapter
Publication Subtype Book Chapter
Title Multispecies lottery competition: a diffusion analysis
Year Published 1997
Language English
Publisher Chapman & Hall
Publisher location New York, NY
Contributing office(s) Patuxent Wildlife Research Center
Description xii, 643
Larger Work Type Book
Larger Work Subtype Other Government Series
Larger Work Title Structured-Population Models in Marine, Terrestrial, and Freshwater Systems
First page 615
Last page 622
Google Analytic Metrics Metrics page
Additional publication details