Ecological invasion, roughened fronts, and a competitor's extreme advance: integrating stochastic spatial-growth models

DOI10.1007/S11538-009-9398-6zbMATH Open1168.92044arXiv1007.1621OpenAlexW2132622484WikidataQ51180935 ScholiaQ51180935MaRDI QIDQ836217FDOQ836217

Thomas Caraco, Lauren O'Malley, Gyorgy Korniss

Publication date: 31 August 2009

Published in: Bulletin of Mathematical Biology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Both community ecology and conservation biology seek further understanding of factors governing the advance of an invasive species. We model biological invasion as an individual-based, stochastic process on a two-dimensional landscape. An ecologically superior invader and a resident species compete for space preemptively. Our general model includes the basic contact process and a variant of the Eden model as special cases. We employ the concept of a "roughened" front to quantify effects of discreteness and stochasticity on invasion; we emphasize the probability distribution of the front-runner's relative position. That is, we analyze the location of the most advanced invader as the extreme deviation about the front's mean position. We find that a class of models with different assumptions about neighborhood interactions exhibit universal characteristics. That is, key features of the invasion dynamics span a class of models, independently of locally detailed demographic rules. Our results integrate theories of invasive spatial growth and generate novel hypotheses linking habitat or landscape size (length of the invading front) to invasion velocity, and to the relative position of the most advanced invader.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1007.1621

zbMATH Keywords

extreme-value statisticsspatial modelecological invasionfront-runner distributionpreemptive competitionstochastic roughening

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistics of extreme values; tail inference (62G32) Signal detection and filtering (aspects of stochastic processes) (60G35) Ecology (92D40)

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