Features of Fast Living: On the Weak Selection for Longevity in Degenerate Birth-Death Processes

Journal of Statistical Physics

Volumn 148, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 646-662

  Lin, Yen Ting ^a   Kim, Hyejin ^a   Doering, Charles R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Birth death processes; Extinction; Population biology; Weak noise asymptotics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866305276     PISSN: 00224715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10955-012-0479-9     Document Type: Article

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