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Population Dynamics Based on Individual Stochasticity

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Population Dynamics Based on Individual Stochasticity
Population Dynamics Based on Individual Stochasticity

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Population Dynamics Based on Individual Stochasticity

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This book demonstrates that population structure and dynamics can be reconstructed by shastic analysis. Population projection is usually based on age-structured population models. These models consist of age-dependent fertility and mortality, whereas birth and death processes generally arise from states of individuals. For example, a number of seeds are proportional to tree size, and amount of income and savings are the basis of decision making for birth behavior in human beings. Thus, even though individuals belong to an identical cohort, they have different fertility and mortality. To treat this kind of individual heterogeneity, shastic state transitions are reasonable rather than the deterministic states. This book extends deterministic systems to shastic systems specifically, constructing a state transition model represented by shastic differential equations. The diffusion process generated by shastic differential equations provides statistics determining population dynamics, i.e., heterogeneity is incorporated in population dynamics as its statistics. Applying this perspective to demography and evolutionary biology, we can consider the role of heterogeneity in life history or evolution. These concepts are provided to readers with explanations of shastic analysis.

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