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Many ideas and techniques developed in earlier chapters prove useful for understanding the diffusion and reaction of chemical species and for describing the mixing and spreading of biological populations and organisms. As with all continuum models, the description applies when the numbers of individual chemical molecules or biological cells, insects or animals in a region being modelled is sufficiently large that movements, births or deaths of individuals need not be traced, but changes in spatial averages give sufficient information.
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Parker, D.F. (2003). Chemical and Biological Models. In: Fields, Flows and Waves. Springer Undergraduate Mathematics Series. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0019-5_10
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