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Persistence times of populations subject to random disasters

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2016

John Haigh*
Affiliation:
University of Sussex

Extract

The model of a population which grows logistically, except for random disasters that reduce the population by a given amount at the instants of a Poisson process, which was examined by Hanson and Tuckwell (1978), is generalised in two ways:

Type
Symposium on Mathematical Genetics, London, 26–27 March 1979
Copyright
Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 1980 

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References

Hanson, F. B. and Tuckwell, H. C. (1978) Persistence times of populations with large random fluctuations. Theoret. Popn. Biol. 14, 4661.Google Scholar