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SOME INEQUALITIES FOR THEORETICAL SPATIAL ECOLOGY

Part of: Special processes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 October 2013

PAUL F. SLADE
PAUL F. SLADE*
Affiliation:
School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Adelaide, North Terrace, Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia email pfslade@gmail.com
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Inequalities for spatial competition verify the pair approximation of statistical mechanics introduced to theoretical ecology by Matsuda, Satō and Iwasa, among others. Spatially continuous moment equations were introduced by Bolker and Pacala and use a similar assumption in derivation. In the present article, I prove upper bounds for the $k\mathrm{th} $ central moment of occupied sites in the contact process of a single spatial dimension. This result shows why such moment closures are effective in spatial ecology.

Keywords

dispersal rangeinteracting particle systemmoment closurepair approximationsystem of moment equations

MSC classification

Secondary: 92D40: Ecology 60K35: Interacting random processes; statistical mechanics type models; percolation theory

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Research Article
Information
The ANZIAM Journal , Volume 55 , Issue 1 , July 2013 , pp. 55 - 68
Copyright
Copyright ©2013 Australian Mathematical Society 

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