Stochastic modeling of aphid population growth with nonlinear, power-law dynamics

Mathematical Biosciences

Volumn 208, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 469-494

  Matis, James H ^a   Kiffe, Thomas R ^a   Matis, Timothy I ^b   Stevenson, Douglass E ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Birth death processes; Kolmogrov equations; Moment closure methods; Normal approximation; Pecan aphids

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; FEEDBACK; KINETICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STOCHASTIC CONTROL SYSTEMS;

BIRTH-DEATH PROCESSES; KOLMOGROV EQUATIONS; MOMENT CLOSURE METHODS; NORMAL APPROXIMATION; PECAN APHIDS;

POPULATION DYNAMICS;

ABUNDANCE; APHID; BIRTH RATE; FEEDBACK MECHANISM; MORALITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; POPULATION GROWTH; POPULATION MODELING; POPULATION SIZE; POWER LAW; SKEWNESS; STOCHASTICITY;

APHID; ARTHROPOD LIFE CYCLE STAGE; ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; POPULATION BIOLOGY; SIMULATION; STOCHASTIC MODEL;

ANIMALS; APHIDS; CARYA; FEMALE; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; POPULATION GROWTH; REPRODUCTION; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

APHIDIDAE; CARYA ILLINOINENSIS;

EID: 34547125136     PISSN: 00255564     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mbs.2006.11.004     Document Type: Article

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