The understanding of the mechanisms that promote biodiversity has implications for conservation and extinction of species and has raised the interest of the scientific community in the last decades. It is well established that spatial heterogeneity is an important factor influencing species...

This paper compares the GWR model, usually used to integrate and examine the spatial heterogeneity of a relationship, and the NCSTAR model. The former will give a vector of local parameter estimates for each observation of the data set, according to its nearest neighbors in space. However, it...

Recent studies in ecology and epidemiology indicate that it is important to include spatial heterogeneity, synchronization and seasonality in the theoretical models. In this work, spatial heterogeneity is introduced via coupled map lattices (CML) and partial differential equations. Stability and...