Atto-Foxes and Other Minutiae

We describe the occurrence of the atto-fox problem in other contexts, such as the microbial 'yocto-cell' problem, and we suggest that the modelling resolution is to allow for the existence of a reservoir for the extinctively challenged individuals. This is functionally similar to the concept of a 'refuge' in predator-prey systems and represents a state for the individuals in which they are immune from destruction. For what I call the 'frogspawn' problem, where only a few individuals survive to adulthood from a large number of eggs, we provide a simple explanation based on a Holling type 3 response and elaborate it by means of a suitable nonlinear age-structured model.PMID:34463830 | DOI:10.1007/s11538-021-00936-x
Source: Bulletin of Mathematical Biology - Category: Bioinformatics Authors: Source Type: research