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Article

Date of this Version

6-2021

Citation

Published in Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems Series B, Volume 26, Number 6 (June 2021), pp. 3279-3302

doi:10.3934/dcdsb.2020232

Abstract

Dynamic observers are considered in the context of structuredpopulation modeling and management. Roughly, observers combine a known measured variable of some process with a model of that process to asymptotically reconstruct the unknown state variable of the model. We investigate the potential use of observers for reconstructing population distributions described by density-independent (linear) models and a class of density-dependent (nonlinear) models. In both the density-dependent and -independent cases, we show, in several ecologically reasonable circumstances, that there is a natural, optimal construction of these observers. Further, we describe the robustness these observers exhibit with respect to disturbances and uncertainty in measurement.

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