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The problem of time dynamics of the size of natural populations occupies one of the most important places in biological literature [1–9, 11]. Many investigators isolate varied mechanisms for regulating the size of natural populations, which operate at both the inter-population and intrapopulation levels. For many reasons, some of which will become clear below, the study of the dynamics of the overall number of a population without allowance for its age structure is hardly satisfactory. Besides being of purely ecological interest, problems of the dynamics of the age composition of a population have practical significance in connection with a number of applied problems of controlling the dynamics of natural and artificial populations.
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Ginzburg, L.R. (1973). On the Dynamics and Control of the Age Structure of a Population. In: Lyapunov, A.A. (eds) Systems Theory Research. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-0079-4_12
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