Week 03

Overview

In lecture this week, we will learn how to incorporate in biological reality in the form of age or stage-structure in populations. For example, some populations may have many individuals, but if most individuals are very old and have low reproductive output, the population may nevertheless decline to extinction in the long-term. On the other hand, small populations may eventually grow to be big if they mostly comprise individuals with high survival rates and high fecundity (reproductive rates).

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