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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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A Numerical Approach to Calculating Population Spreading Speed

Leo, Angela A 02 April 2007 (has links)
A population density, $u_{n}(x)$, is recursively defined by the formula egin{equation*} u_{n+1}(x)=int K(x-y)Big(1-ig(u_{n}(yig)Big)ig(u_{n} (yig)dy + ig(u_{n}(xig)ig(u_{n}(xig). end{equation*} Here, $K$ is a probability density function, $g(u)$ represents the fraction of the population that does not migrate, and $f$ is a monotonically decreasing function that behaves like the Beverton-Holt function. In this paper, I examine and modify the population genetics model found in cite{LV06} to include the case where a density-dependent fraction of the population does not migrate after the selection process.Using the expanded model, I developed a numerical application to simulate the spreading of a species and estimate the spreading speed of the population. The application is tested under various model conditions which include both density-dependent and density- independent dispersal rates. For the density-dependent case, I analyzed the fixed points of the model and their relationship to whether a given species will spread.

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