A spatial model for the abundance of species

Annals of Probability

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 658-709

  Bramson, Maury ^a   Cox, J Theodore ^b   Durrett, Richard ^c  

^a 127 Vincent Hall ^*  (United States)

^b SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Department of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Coalescing random walk; Multitype voter model; Species abundance distributions

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032392584     PISSN: 00911798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/aop/1022855647     Document Type: Article

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