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On a Mathematical Theory of Populations Conceived as Conglomerations of Clusters

1957; Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press; Volume: 22; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1101/sqb.1957.022.01.014

1943-4456

Jerzy Neyman, E. L. Scott,

Stochastic processes and statistical mechanics

The development and the spatial distribution of natural populations is reducible to a repetition of the following mechanism. A litter (having one or more members) is born at a particular point in the habitat and the individuals forming this litter disperse. Also, they gradually die out. Before dying, some of the females produce one or more litters of progeny and so on. There results a particular distribution of the organisms over their habitat. This distribution, representing a conglomeration of clusters, is the subject of our study.