Moment Methods for Ecological Processes in Continuous Space

Introduction Spatial dynamics of populations have long been of interest to ecologists (Skellam 1951; Levin and Paine 1974; Andow et al. 1990), but recent advances in data collection and in computational power have put these concepts within the reach of many ecologists for the first time. Computational models (Wilson et al. 1993, 1995b; McCauley et al. 1993; Pacala and Deutschman 1995) suggest important and previously unexplored effects of space …