Analytical methods for a stochastic mainland-island metapopulation model |
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Authors: | FM Buckley PK Pollett |
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Institution: | Department of Mathematics, University of Queensland, St Lucia, Qld 4072, Australia |
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Abstract: | We study a class of chain-binomial metapopulation models, giving special attention to the ‘mainland-island’ configuration, where patches receive immigrants from an external source. We evaluate the distribution of the number nt of occupied patches at any census time t and establish a law of large numbers that identifies a deterministic trajectory which can be used to approximate the process when the number of patches is large. We also establish a central limit law, which shows that the fluctuations about this trajectory are approximately normally distributed. We describe briefly much finer results that can be used for model calibration. |
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Keywords: | Metapopulation Discrete-time Markov chain Mainland-island Chain-binomial model Seasonal phases |
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