A self-regulating and patch subdivided population

Publication date 26 November 2010

Abstract: We consider an interacting particle process on a graph which, from a macroscopic point of view, looks like

and, at a microscopic level, is a complete graph of degree

N

(called a patch). There are two birth rates: an inter-patch one

l a m b d a

and an intra-patch one

p h i

. Once a site is occupied, there is no breeding from outside the patch and the probability

c (i)

of success of an intra-patch breeding decreases with the size

i

of the population in the site. We prove the existence of a critical value

l a m b d a_{c r} (p h i, c, N)

and a critical value

p h i_{c r} (l a m b d a, c, N)

. We consider a sequence of processes generated by the families of control functions

{c_{i}}_{i i n N}

and degrees

{N_{i}}_{i i n N}

; we prove, under mild assumptions, the existence of a critical value

i_{c r}

. Roughly speaking we show that, in the limit, these processes behave as the branching random walk on

with external birth rate

l a m b d a

and internal birth rate

p h i

. Some examples of models that can be seen as particular cases are given.

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