Ecological invasion, roughened fronts, and a competitor's extreme advance: Integrating stochastic spatial-growth models

Bulletin of Mathematical Biology

Volumn 71, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1160-1188

  O'Malley, Lauren ^a,c   Korniss, G ^a   Caraco, Thomas ^b  

^a Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c Boston University   (United States)

Author keywords

Ecological invasion; Extreme value statistics; Front runner distribution; Preemptive competition; Spatial model; Stochastic roughening

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECOSYSTEM; MATHEMATICAL PHENOMENA; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; STATISTICS;

ECOSYSTEM; MATHEMATICAL CONCEPTS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 67651089484     PISSN: 00928240     EISSN: 15229602     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11538-009-9398-6     Document Type: Article

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