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1Department of Mathematics, Braude College, Karmiel, Israel. katriel@braude.ac.il.
Abstract:
Dispersal-induced growth (DIG) occurs when several populations with time-varying growth rates, each of which, when isolated, would become extinct, are able to persist and grow exponentially when dispersal among the populations is present. This work provides a mathematical exploration of this surprising phenomenon, in the context of a deterministic model with periodic variation of growth rates, and characterizes the factors which are important in generating the DIG effect, and the corresponding conditions on the parameters involved.
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