The regulation of a dispersive age-structured population by a fatal disease (Q1334830)

We investigate an epidemic model which incorporates both dispersal and age-structure. It is our intention that the model have sufficient detail to be of biological relevance, but be simple enough to prove mathematically tractable. As we see this intention is only partly realised. We emphasise here that our main interest lies in the possibility of the disease regulating a wild animal population which would otherwise grow. This is in distinction to many of the aforementioned studies where the disease is assumed not fatal and the size of the total population constant.