Diffusion models: Still promoting progresses Comments on 'Multiscale approach to pest insect monitoring: Random walks, pattern formation, synchronization and networks' by S. Petrovskii, N. Petrovskaya and D. Bearup

摘要

The review [6] by Sergei Petrovskii, Natalia Petrovskaya and Daniel Bearup provides a comprehensive description of pest insect monitoring methods at different scales of observation. Each scale has different interpretation in the monitoring problem and requires its own mathematical tools. In fact, the importance of scales has widely been recognized in ecology [2-4]. Hence, the authors' approach to the problem from the perspective of different scales is one the features that makes this review article so interesting.