Converging towards the optimal path to extinction

Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Volumn 8, Issue 65, 2011, Pages 1699-1707

  Schwartz, Ira B ^a   Forgoston, Eric ^b   Bianco, Simone ^c   Shaw, Leah B ^d  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d Dept of Economics and Thomas Jefferson Program in Public Policy at the College of William and Mary   (United States)

Author keywords

Extinction; Finite time Lyapunov exponents; Optimal path

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGY; DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS; LIGHT EXTINCTION; LYAPUNOV METHODS; RANDOM PROCESSES; STOCHASTIC MODELS;

EFFECTIVE FORCES; FINITE POPULATION; FINITE-TIME LYAPUNOV EXPONENT; INITIAL CONDITIONS; OPTIMAL PATHS; RANDOM PATHS; RANDOM TRANSITION; RARE EVENT;

OPTIMIZATION;

ARTICLE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; POPULATION DENSITY; SPECIES EXTINCTION; STOCHASTIC MODEL;

EID: 82655178492     PISSN: 17425689     EISSN: 17425662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2011.0159     Document Type: Article

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