title: Demographic fluctuations in a population of anomalously diffusing individuals.
abstract: The phenomenon of spatial clustering induced by death and reproduction in a population of anomalously diffusing individuals is studied analytically. The possibility of social behaviors affecting the migration strategies has been taken into exam, in the case that anomalous diffusion is produced by means of a continuous time random walk (CTRW). In the case of independently diffusing individuals, the dynamics appears to coincide with that of (dying and reproducing) Brownian walkers. In the strongly social case, the dynamics coincides with that of nonmigrating individuals. In both limits, the growth rate of the fluctuations becomes independent of the Hurst exponent of the CTRW. The social behaviors that arise when transport in a population is induced by a spatial distribution of random traps have been analyzed.
authors.affiliation: ISAC-CNR and INFN, Sez. Cagliari, I-09042 Monserrato, Italy.
authors.forename: Piero
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Olla
mesh_terms: D003198:Computer Simulation; D004058:Diffusion; D006801:Humans; D015233:Models, Statistical; D011158:Population Growth; D012919:Social Behavior