Coexistence of grass, saplings and trees in the Staver-Levin forest model

DOI10.1214/14-AAP1079zbMATH Open1329.60333arXiv1401.5220MaRDI QIDQ894813FDOQ894813

Authors: Yuan Zhang, Rick Durrett 

Publication date: 24 November 2015

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

Abstract: In this paper, we consider two attractive stochastic spatial models in which each site can be in state 0, 1 or 2: Krone's model in which 0$=$vacant, 1$=$juvenile and 2$=$a mature individual capable of giving birth, and the Staver-Levin forest model in which 0$=$grass, 1$=$sapling and 2$=$tree. Our first result shows that if $(0,0)$ is an unstable fixed point of the mean-field ODE for densities of 1's and 2's then when the range of interaction is large, there is positive probability of survival starting from a finite set and a stationary distribution in which all three types are present. The result we obtain in this way is asymptotically sharp for Krone's model. However, in the Staver-Levin forest model, if $(0,0)$ is attracting then there may also be another stable fixed point for the ODE, and in some of these cases there is a nontrivial stationary distribution.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1401.5220

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zbMATH Keywords

coexistencepercolationstationary distributionblock constructionStaver-Levin forest model

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Interacting random processes; statistical mechanics type models; percolation theory (60K35) Ecology (92D40) Percolation (82B43) Interacting particle systems in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C22)

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