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Stochastic models of population extinction
Otso Ovaskainen, Baruch Meerson
Theoretical ecologists have long sought to understand how the persistence of populations depends on biotic and abiotic factors. Classical work showed that demographic stochasticity…
Extinction rates of established spatial populations
Baruch Meerson, Pavel V. Sasorov
This paper deals with extinction of an isolated population caused by intrinsic noise. We model the population dynamics in a "refuge" as a Markov process which involves births and d…
Large fluctuations in stochastic population dynamics: momentum space calculations
Michael Assaf, Baruch Meerson, Pavel V. Sasorov
Momentum-space representation renders an interesting perspective to theory of large fluctuations in populations undergoing Markovian stochastic gain-loss processes. This representa…
Speeding up disease extinction with a limited amount of vaccine
M. Khasin, M. I. Dykman, B. Meerson
We consider optimal vaccination protocol where the vaccine is in short supply. In this case, disease extinction results from a large and rare fluctuation. We show that the probabil…