What is it about?
Formulate the mean and variance of stochastic population growth for a number of co-varying local populations
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Why is it important?
Inspired by Markowitz's portfolio theory, we reformulated it with more realistic features and discovered a surprising effect of simultaneously reducing volatility and inflating growth
Perspectives
The potential for building a unified framework for studying the dynamics and persistence of spatial stochastic populations
Cang Hui
Stellenbosch University
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This page is a summary of: Scale-dependent portfolio effects explain growth inflation and volatility reduction in landscape demography, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, November 2017, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1704213114.
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