title: Integrodifference equations in patchy landscapes : II: population level consequences.
abstract: We analyze integrodifference equations (IDEs) in patchy landscapes. Movement is described by a dispersal kernel that arises from a random walk model with patch dependent diffusion, settling, and mortality rates, and it incorporates individual behavior at an interface between two patch types. Growth follows a simple Beverton-Holt growth or linear decay. We obtain explicit formulae for the critical domain-size problem, and we illustrate how different individual behavior at the boundary between two patch types affects this quantity. We also study persistence conditions on an infinite, periodic, patchy landscape. We observe that if the population can persist on the landscape, the spatial profile of the invasion evolves into a discontinuous traveling periodic wave that moves with constant speed. Assuming linear determinacy, we calculate the dispersion relation and illustrate how movement behavior affects invasion speed. Numerical simulations justify our approach by showing a close correspondence between the spread rate obtained from the dispersion relation and from numerical simulations.
authors.affiliation: Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada, musgrave.jeff@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Jeffrey
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Musgrave
authors.forename: Frithjof
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Lutscher
mesh_terms: D003198:Computer Simulation; D017753:Ecosystem; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D011156:Population Density; D013269:Stochastic Processes
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