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Journal or J. Math. Biol.(1994) 32:789-807 Matlxtmatkal Mology © Springer-Verlag 1994 The relationship between the transition matrix model and the diffusion model Takenori Takada ~, Toshihiko Hara 2 1Department of International CulturalRelations,Hokkaido Tokai University,Sapporo, 005 Japan (Tel.:011-571-5111, Fax: 011-571-7879) 2Department of Biology,Tokyo MetropolitanUniversity,Tokyo, 192-03Japan (Tel.:0426-77-2584) Received26 January 1993;receivedin revised form 31 August 1993 Abstract. The diffusion equation model and the Lefkovitch matrix model have been employed independently in plant population ecology in order to analyze the dynamics of growth and size structure. The two models describe the dynamics of size structure in biological populations, and thus there must be some relationship between them. In the present paper, we examine the theoretical relationship between these two models. We demonstrate, on a certain assumption, that the one-step Lefkovitch matrix model corresponds to a difference equation of the diffusion equation and that the two- and three-step Lefkovitch matrix model correspond to difference equations of the 4th- and 6th-order Kramers-Moyal expansions, respectively. It is also shown that 2n moments (the first to the 2n-th moments) of growth rate are necessary and sufficient to rewrite uniquely the n-step Lefkovitch matrix model in terms of the linear combination of the moments. We finally discuss the relationship between the species characteristics of census dat