Stochastic Spatial Processes: Mathematical Theories and Biological Applications Proceedings of a Conference held in Heidelberg, September 10–14, 1984

Stochastic spatial processes in biology: A concise historical survey....Pages 1-41
Tests for space-time clustering....Pages 42-51
Age distributions in birth and death processes....Pages 52-58
Critical clustering in the two dimensional voter model....Pages 59-68
Measure-valued processes Construction, qualitative behavior and stochastic geometry....Pages 69-93
Dual processes in population genetics....Pages 94-105
Some peculiar properties of a particle system with sexual reproduction....Pages 106-111
Computer simulation of developmental processes in biology: Models for the developing limb....Pages 112-123
Asymptotics and spatial growth of branching random fields....Pages 124-135
Generation-dependent branching processes with immigration: convergence of distributions....Pages 136-144
On a class of infinite particle systems evolving in a random environment....Pages 145-164
Percolation processes and dimensionality....Pages 165-174
Birth and death processes with killing and applications to parasitic infections....Pages 175-186
Limit theorems for multitype branching random walks....Pages 187-194
On the reproduction rate of the spatial general epidemic....Pages 195-199
Nearest particle systems: Results and open problems....Pages 200-215
Neutral models of geographical variation....Pages 216-237
Stochastic measure diffusions as models of growth and spread....Pages 238-248
 L 2 convergence of certain random walks on Z d and related diffusions....Pages 249-257
Random fields: Applications in cell biology....Pages 258-299
Correlated percolation and repulsive particle systems....Pages 300-311