The influence of spatial inhomogeneities on neutral models of geographical variation. III: Migration across a geographical barrier (Q2365862)

This is the third in a series of papers devoted to the study of the influence of geographical barriers and spatial variation on carrying capacity and migration rate in subdivided populations. [For part II see \textit{T. Nagylaki} and \textit{V. Barcilon}, ibid. 33, No. 3, 311-343 (1988; Zbl 0668.92007)]. This paper investigates the equilibrium structure of a population occupying an infinite linear habitat bisected by a penetrable geographical barrier. Quantitative results are achieved by the derivation of various bounds and approximations for a certain two-dimensional elliptic boundary-value problem that is the diffusion approximation to the (intractable) full model. Numerical results illustrate the analyses.