Can a single migrant per generation rescue a dying population?
Probability
2023-04-14 v1
Abstract
We introduce a population model to test the hypothesis that even a single migrant per generation may rescue a dying population. Let be a sequence of real numbers in . Let be a size of the population at time . Then, , where the conditional distribution of given is a binomial random variable with parameters . We assume that exists. If the process is transient with speed (so yes a single migrant per generation may rescue a dying population!) and if the process is positive recurrent. In the critical case the process is recurrent or transient according to how converges to . When and under some regularity conditions, the support of the increments is eventually finite.
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@article{arxiv.2304.06478,
title = {Can a single migrant per generation rescue a dying population?},
author = {Iddo Ben-Ari and Rinaldo B. Schinazi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2304.06478},
year = {2023}
}