Ergodic behavior of locally regulated branching populations

Abstract

For a class of processes modeling the evolution of a spatially structured population with migration and a logistic local regulation of the reproduction dynamics, we show convergence to an upper invariant measure from a suitable class of initial distributions. It follows from recent work of Alison Etheridge that this upper invariant measure is nontrivial for sufficiently large super-criticality in the reproduction. For sufficiently small super-criticality, we prove local extinction by comparison with a mean field model. This latter result extends also to more general local reproduction regulations.

Published at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/105051606000000745 in the Annals of Applied Probability (http://www.imstat.org/aap/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)

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• The branching process with logistic growth

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