Fractional reproduction-dispersal equations and heavy tail dispersal kernels

Bulletin of Mathematical Biology

Volumn 69, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 2281-2297

  Baeumer, Boris ^a   Kovács, Mihály ^a   Meerschaert, Mark M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anomalous diffusion; Fractional derivative; Integro difference equation; Operator splitting; Reproduction dispersal equation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FOURIER ANALYSIS; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GROWTH; PROBABILITY; REPRODUCTION; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICS;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FOURIER ANALYSIS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GROWTH; PROBABILITY; REPRODUCTION; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 34548677557     PISSN: 00928240     EISSN: 15229602     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11538-007-9220-2     Document Type: Article

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