A critical branching process model for biodiversity

Advances in Applied Probability

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1094-1115

  Aldous, David ^a   Popovic, Lea ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c Cornell University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Brownian excursion; Contour process; Critical branching process; Genealogy; Local weak convergence; Phylogenetic tree; Point process

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BROWNIAN MOVEMENT; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES; RANDOM PROCESSES; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

BROWNIAN EXCURSION; CONTOUR PROCESS; CRITICAL BRANCHING PROCESS; GENEALOGY; LOCAL WEAK CONVERGENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; POINT PROCESS;

BIODIVERSITY;

EID: 31944437577     PISSN: 00018678     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1239/aap/1134587755     Document Type: Article

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