Patchiness and Demographic Noise in Three Ecological Examples

Journal of Statistical Physics

Volumn 148, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 723-739

  Bonachela, Juan A ^a   Muñoz, Miguel A ^b   Levin, Simon A ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Demographic noise; Langevin equations; Non equilibrium phase transition; Patterns; Self organization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866306355     PISSN: 00224715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10955-012-0506-x     Document Type: Article

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