Mathematical Treatment of Biological Diffusion
Mathematical Treatment of Biological Diffusion
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生物扩散的数学处理
DOI:
10.1007/978-1-4757-4978-6_5
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发表时间:
2001
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通讯作者:
D. Grünbaum
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作者:
A. Ōkubo;D. Grünbaum
In the lifetime of most animals there occurs a time when the site of inhabitation is abandoned in favor of migration. Thus, in an environment changing through space and time, the most probable strategy for a new individual to adapt to survive and reproduce may not necessarily consist of remaining to compete with its parents or congeners, but may rather consist of migrating elsewhere to find an empty niche to inhabit (Taylor and Taylor, 1977; see also Lidicker and Caldwell, 1982). As a result the spread of population, i.e., dispersal, takes place. Such animal movement includes nomadism, whereby animals wander with no particular direction in search of sustenance, in a manner that resembles the random walk; and migration, which may be either periodic as animals move from one habitat to another in a repetitive cycle, or nonperiodic, implying a certain degree of permanence to the move. In addition, animals may display a restricted movement as they carry on their daily activities within a given domain of their habitat (home range).