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2014-01-01
Alex Potapov, Ulrike E. Schlagel, Mark A. Lewis
We use an evolutionary approach to find “most appropriate” dispersal models for ecological applications. From a random walk with locally or nonlocally defined transition probabilities we derive a family of diffusion equations. We assume a monotonic dependence of its diffusion coefficient on...
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2021-07-06
Jingjing Xu, Evelyn H. Merrill, Mark A. Lewis
Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is a fatal disease of cervid species that continues to spread across North America and now in Europe. It poses a threat to cervid populations and the local ecological and economic communities that depend on them. Although empirical studies have shown that host home...