Cluster formation in a stepping-stone model with continuous, hierarchically structured sites (Q674508)

A stepping-stone model with space a continuous, hierarchical group, is constructed via duality with a system of (delayed) coalescing ``stable'' Lévy processes. This model can be understood as a continuum limit of discrete state-space, two allele, genetics models with hierarchically structured resampling and migration. The existence of a process rescaling limit on suitably related large space and time scales is established and interpreted in terms of the dynamics of cluster formation.