Abstract

We model the demographic dynamics of populations with sexual reproduction where the reproduction phase occurs in a non-predictable environment and we assume the immigration/out-migration of mating units in the population. We introduce a general class of two-sex branching processes where, in each generation, the number of mating units which take part in the reproduction phase is randomly determined and the offspring probability distribution changes over time in a random environment. We provide several probabilistic results about the limit behaviour of populations whose dynamics is modelled by such a class of stochastic processes. In particular, we provide sufficient conditions for the almost sure extinction of the population or for its survival with a positive probability. As illustration, we include some simulated examples.

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