Allee dynamics: Growth, extinction and range expansion

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العنوان: Allee dynamics: Growth, extinction and range expansion
المؤلفون: Bose, Indrani, Pal, Mainak, Karmakar, Chiranjit
سنة النشر: 2017
المجموعة: Quantitative Biology
مصطلحات موضوعية: Quantitative Biology - Cell Behavior
الوصف: In population biology, the Allee dynamics refer to negative growth rates below a critical population density. In this Letter, we study a reaction-diffusion (RD) model of population growth and dispersion in one dimension, which incorporates the Allee effect in both the growth and mortality rates. In the absence of diffusion, the bifurcation diagram displays regions of both finite population density and zero population density, i.e., extinction. The early signatures of the transition to extinction at a bifurcation point are computed in the presence of additive noise. For the full RD model, the existence of travelling wave solutions of the population density is demonstrated. The parameter regimes in which the travelling wave advances (range expansion) and retreats are identified. In the weak Allee regime, the transition from the pushed to the pulled wave is shown as a function of the mortality rate constant. The results obtained are in agreement with the recent experimental observations on budding yeast populations.
Comment: 11 pages, International Journal of Modern Physics C (2017)
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1142/S0129183117500747
URL الوصول: http://arxiv.org/abs/1701.00330
رقم الأكسشن: edsarx.1701.00330
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv
الوصف
DOI:10.1142/S0129183117500747