Spreading Speeds in Slowly Oscillating Environments

Bulletin of Mathematical Biology

Volumn 72, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1166-1191

  Hamel, François ^a,b   Fayard, Julien ^c   Roques, Lionel ^c  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^c INRA   (France)

Author keywords

Allee effect; Fragmentation; Periodic environment; Reaction diffusion; Spreading speeds

Indexed keywords

EID: 77149153766     PISSN: 00928240     EISSN: 15229602     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11538-009-9486-7     Document Type: Article

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