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In the previous two chapters, I discussed statistical properties of population processes without referring to their ecological mechanisms. In this chapter, I shall discuss several types of mechanisms and examine their interrelations. Through such comparative studies, we gain insight into the way our ideas evolve. Understanding the ecological meaning of a model promotes further improvement in its applicability through systematic generalizations.
‘What we want to know is how the biological forces of natality and mortality are so integrated and correlated in their action as to lead to a final result in size of population which follows this particular curve rather than some other one.’
Raymond Pearl (The Growth of Population, 1927)
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Royama, T. (1992). Population process models. In: Analytical Population Dynamics. Population and Community Biology Series, vol 10. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2916-9_4
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