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Spatial dynamics of a population in a heterogeneous environment

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We consider a certain lattice branching random walk with on-site competition and in an environment which is heterogeneous at a macroscopic scale $1/\varepsilon$ in space and time. This can be seen as a model for the spatial dynamics of a biological population in a habitat which is heterogeneous at a large scale (mountains, temperature or precipitation gradient...). The model incorporates another parameter, $K$, which is a measure of the local population density. We study the model in the limit when first $\varepsilon\to 0$ and then $K\to\infty$. In this asymptotic regime, we show that the rescaled position of the front as a function of time converges to the solution of an explicit ODE. We further discuss the relation with another popular model of population dynamics, the Fisher-KPP equation, which arises in the limit $K\to\infty$. Combined with known results on the Fisher-KPP equation, our results show in particular that the limits $\varepsilon\to0$ and $K\to\infty$ do not commute in general. We conjecture that an interpolating regime appears when $\log K$ and $1/\varepsilon$ are of the same order.

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hal-03292329 , version 1 (20-07-2021)

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Pascal Maillard, Gaël Raoul, Julie Tourniaire. Spatial dynamics of a population in a heterogeneous environment. 2021. ⟨hal-03292329⟩
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