Abstract
The species of living organisms are found in a mutual relation one with another, so that in truth it would be impossible to do a well rounded study of any single species without taking into account a considerable number of other species which influence it in one manner or another.
“Dans les questions compliquées le bon sens a besoin d’être guidé par les résultats du calcul; les formules ne créent pas l’esprit de finesse, mais en facilitent l’usage.” [In complicated questions good sense needs to be guided by the results of computation; the formulas do not create the sensitive mind but facilitate its use.]
Émile Borel
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Lotka, A.J. (1998). Introduction. In: Analytical Theory of Biological Populations. The Springer Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-9176-1_5
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