On the Galton-Watson predator-prey process

DOI10.1214/AOAP/1177005515MaRDI QIDQ1210491zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Gerold Alsmeyer

Publication date 22 November 1993

Published in The Annals of Applied Probability (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1214/aoap/1177005515

zbMATH Keywords

almost certain extinction of the prey processdiscrete-time predator-prey random modelmartingalespositive limit on the set of nonextinctionright normalizing constantssuper-critical Galton-Watson processtwo-district migration model

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Limit theorems in probability theory (60F99) Martingales with discrete parameter (60G42) Branching processes (Galton-Watson, birth-and-death, etc.) (60J80) Applications of branching processes (60J85) Population dynamics (general) (92D25)

Review text

A discrete-time predator-prey random model is such that the predators evolve as a super-critical Galton-Watson process. Each prey is either killed by a predator, so it cannot reproduce, or it reproduces independently of all other population members and according to the same offspring distribution with mean greater than one. The \((X_ n,Y_ n)\), \(n\geq 0\), with \(X_ n\) the number of predators and \(Y_ n\) the number of prey in the \(n\) th generation, is called a Galton-Watson predator-prey process. Given \(X_ n\to\infty\), the questions of determination of conditions for \(Y_ n\to 0\) almost surely, and of determination of constants \(d_ n\), \(n\geq 1\), such that \(Y_ n/d_ n\) has a positive limit on the set of non-extinction, are completely answered. Proofs use the reformulation of the model as a two-district migration model.

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