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UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO COLORADO SPRINGS COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND APPLIED SCIENCE | |||||||||||||||
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MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM SERIES
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Mass extinctions: living in a big flock can be bad for you!
Rinaldo Schinazi Department of Mathematics University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
We introduce a spatial stochastic process to model mass extinctions. We assume that a given species lives in flocks and that a new flock is started only when the parent flock reaches a given maximum size. Our model shows that, at least in theory, there is a critical maximum flock size above which a species is certain to disappear and below which it may survive.
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