Abstract
A model for the abundance of adult populations of Tribolium is in the form of a stochastic differential equation containing adult recruitment and mortality rates perturbed by multiplicative noise. A deterministic version of the model (an ordinary differential equation) predicts a fixed, stable equilibrium; the stochastic model predicts a stationary probability distribution for population size. The model can be approximated closely by a stochastic logistic equation having a gamma distribution as a stationary solution. -from Authors
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 1200-1213 |
Number of pages | 14 |
Journal | Ecology |
Volume | 69 |
Issue number | 4 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jan 1 1988 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics