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We deal now with a new family of branching processes taking into account the effect of the environment on the population dynamics. It may cause random fluctuations of the growth rate [12, 33] or catastrophes which kill a random fraction of the population [7].

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Bansaye, V., Méléard, S. (2015). Feller Diffusion with Random Catastrophes. In: Stochastic Models for Structured Populations. Mathematical Biosciences Institute Lecture Series(), vol 1.4. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21711-6_5

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