Event Details

Institute of Mathematical Statistics Annual Meeting

Facility:
Salt Palace Convention Center

Location:
Salt Lake City, UT

Date(s):
July 29, 2007 - July 31, 2007

Our Description:

Understanding Ecological Communities

Ecological communities are assemblages of populations of different species (plants, animals, microbes,...). Community ecology is concerned with understanding the processes that govern diversity, distribution, and abundance of species that compose an ecological community. The standard framework of mathematical models in community ecology is ordinary differential equations. This framework assumes that species are well-mixed and stochastic effects can be neglected. We present insights from work on spatially explicit and stochastic Markov processes on how local interactions and stochastic dynamics affect the outcome of community interactions, such as competition, mutualism, or parasitism.

Host Organization's Web Site:
http://www.amstat.org/meetings/jsm/2007/onlineprogram/index.cfm?fuseaction=abstract_details&abstractid=307983

BioQUEST Staff Attending:
Claudia Neuhauser