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We study the optimal sustainable harvesting of a population that lives in a random environment. The novelty of our setting is that we maximize the asymptotic harvesting yield, both in an expected value and almost sure sense, for a large…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-04-02 Luis H. R. Alvarez E. , Alexandru Hening

Explaining biodiversity is a fundamental issue in ecology. A long-standing puzzle lies in the paradox of the plankton: many species of plankton feeding on a limited variety of resources coexist, apparently flouting the competitive exclusion…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2025-06-18 Ju Kang , Shijie Zhang , Yiyuan Niu , Fan Zhong , Xin Wang

Stoichiometric constraints play a role in the dynamics of natural populations, but are not explicitly considered in most mathematical models. Recent theoretical works suggest that these constraints can have a significant impact and should…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2010-08-12 Dirk Stiefs , George A. K. van Voorn , Bob W. Kooi , Ulrike Feudel , Thilo Gross

We introduce a broad class of spatial models to describe how spatially heterogeneous populations live, die, and reproduce. Individuals are represented by points of a point measure, whose birth and death rates can depend both on spatial…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-01-02 Alison M. Etheridge , Thomas G. Kurtz , Ian Letter , Peter L. Ralph , Terence Tsui Ho Lung

In this paper we consider a microscopic model of a simple ecosystem. The basic ingredients of this model are individuals, and both the phenotypic and genotypic levels are taken in account. The model is based on a long range cellular…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Franco Bagnoli , Michele Bezzi

This paper investigates the optimal harvesting strategy for a single species living in random environments whose growth is given by a regime-switching diffusion. Harvesting acts as a (stochastic) control on the size of the population. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-08-02 Qingshuo Song , Richard Stockbridge , Chao Zhu

The Verhulst model is probably the best known macroscopic rate equation in population ecology. It depends on two parameters, the intrinsic growth rate and the carrying capacity. These parameters can be estimated for different populations…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2015-06-19 Vicenç Méndez , Michael Assaf , Daniel Campos , Werner Horsthemke

To describe population dynamics, it is crucial to take into account jointly evolution mechanisms and spatial motion. However, the models which include these both aspects, are not still well-understood. Can we extend the existing results on…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-01-07 Hélène Leman , Sylvie Meleard , Sepideh Mirrahimi

We propose a stochastic model for evolution through mutation and natural selection of a population that evolves on a $\bbT_d^+$ tree. We think of this model as a way of describing the evolution fitness landscape of a population. We obtain…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-04-13 Carolina Grejo , Fabio Lopes , Fábio Machado , Alejandro Roldán-Correa

We analyze the fluctuation of the number of individuals when two competing species, beginning with a few initial individuals, are submitted to a logistic growth. We show that when the total number of individuals reaches the carrying…

Biological Physics · Physics 2018-10-17 Bahram Houchmandzadeh

We propose a mathematical framework for natural selection in finite populations. Traditionally, many of the selection-based processes used to describe cultural and genetic evolution (such as imitation and birth-death models) have been…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2015-11-18 Alex McAvoy

A class of stochastic individual-based models, written in terms of coupled velocity jump processes, is presented and analysed. This modelling approach incorporates recent experimental findings on behaviour of locusts. It exhibits nontrivial…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-04-14 Radek Erban , Jan Haskovec

In recent years non-demographic variability has been shown to greatly affect dynamics of stochastic populations. For example, non-demographic noise in the form of a bursty reproduction process with an a-priori unknown burst size, or…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2018-06-13 Ohad Vilk , Michael Assaf

The influence of migration on the stochastic dynamics of subdivided populations is still an open issue in various evolutionary models. We develop here a self-consistent mean-field-like method in order to determine the effects of migration…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-04-10 Pierangelo Lombardo , Andrea Gambassi , Luca Dall'Asta

The intratumor heterogeneity has been recognized to characterize cancer cells impairing the efficacy of cancer treatments. We here propose an extension of constraint-based modeling approach in order to simulate metabolism of cell…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2016-07-18 M. Di Filippo , C. Damiani , R. Colombo , D. Pescini , G. Mauri

We introduce two stochastic chemostat models consisting in a coupled population-nutrient process reflecting the interaction between the nutrient and the bacterias in the chemostat with finite volume. The nutrient concentration evolves…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-06-19 Pierre Collet , Servet Martinez , Sylvie Meleard , Jaime San Martin

We study two models of population with migration. We assume that we are given infinitely many islands with the same number r of resources, each individual consuming one unit of resources. On an island lives an individual whose genealogy is…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-06-27 Raoul Normand

The role of the selection pressure and mutation amplitude on the behavior of a single-species population evolving on a two-dimensional lattice, in a periodically changing environment, is studied both analytically and numerically. The…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2009-11-13 Ioana Bena , Michel Droz , Janusz Szwabinski , Andrzej Pekalski

The modelling of evolutionary game dynamics in finite populations requires microscopic processes that determine how strategies spread. The exact details of these processes are often chosen without much further consideration. Different types…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2014-06-17 Bin Wu , Benedikt Bauer , Tobias Galla , Arne Traulsen

In this paper, we consider a stochastic ratio-dependent predator-prey model. We firstly prove the existence, uniqueness and positivity of the solutions. Then, the boundedness of moments of population are studied. Finally, we show the…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-09-01 Nguyen Thi Hoai Linh , Ta Viet Ton