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SUMMARY:Dispersal and competition of populations and communities in spatia
 lly inhomogeneous environments
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20140804
DTSTAMP:20260428T142446Z
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Donald DeAngelis\nNature is highly heterogeneous and ecologist
 s are trying to understand the effects of spatial heterogeneity on populat
 ion dynamics and community biodiversity. Two different approaches\, one by
  theoretical ecologists using discrete-space models and dispersal kernels 
 and another by mathematicians using partial differential equations\, have 
 been independently reaching consistent conclusions. One is that a populati
 on feeding on heterogeneously distributed resources and diffusing can atta
 in higher total biomass than a population feeding on the same mean resourc
 e density distributed homogeneously. Despite the similar subject matter an
 d similar results of the two different mathematical approaches\, as far as
  we know there have not been joint meetings that involve the key mathemati
 cians and theoretical ecologists. The objective of the workshop is to revi
 ew and synthesize progress in these approaches to population dynamics on h
 eterogeneous landscapes\, and to relate this to real populations and commu
 nities in a way to inform PhD students of this subject area.
LOCATION:BI A0 448 https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==BI%20A0%20448
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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