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Rapid convergence to an equilibrium state in kleptoparasitic populations.
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Luther, Roger M. Broom, M. |
| Copyright Year | 2004 |
| Abstract | Previous papers have modelled the behaviour of populations which are subject to kleptoparasitism, and found those ecological situations in which kleptoparasitism should occur. Individuals were considered to be in one of several states, and an equilibrium distribution for the population was found. It was then assumed, for analytical purposes but without proof, that the population was actually in that equilibrium. In this paper, we show that the equilibrium is a stable one, and that it is reached in a relatively short time for all reasonable values of the ecological parameters. Thus, a population may be expected to spend most of the time in equilibrium, and this assumption of these previous works is justified. |
| Starting Page | 2 |
| Ending Page | 20 |
| Page Count | 19 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.staff.city.ac.uk/mark.broom/LB04.pdf |
| PubMed reference number | 14991235v1 |
| Volume Number | 48 |
| Issue Number | 3 |
| Journal | Journal of mathematical biology |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Assumed Convergence (action) Kind of quantity - Equilibrium Paper |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
