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Persistence in discrete age-structured population models

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Survival analyses of populations are developed in dicrete growth processes. Persistence and extinction attributes of age-structured discrete population models are explored on both a finite and infinite time horizon. Conditions for persistence and extinction are found. Decompositions of the initial population size axes into intervals where populations are persistent at timeN and intervals leading to extinction at timen, wheren≤N, are given for two age class discrete population models.

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Li, J. Persistence in discrete age-structured population models. Bltn Mathcal Biology 50, 351–366 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02459705

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