Environmental stochasticity in population biology

• Grant number: 08/10766-2
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Post-Doctoral
• Start date: April 01, 2009
• End date: March 31, 2011
• Field of knowledge: Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Physics - General Physics
• Principal Investigator: Roberto André Kraenkel
• Grantee: Anderson Augusto Ferreira
• Host Institution: Instituto de Física Teórica (IFT). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de São Paulo. São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This research project deals with effects that the environmental noise has on populations of biological species. This is a project of modeling involving the application of stochastic methods generalized Lotka-Volterra and reaction-diffusion equations in context important in population biology. Emphasis will be given to consider colored noise and effects related with correlations. (AU)