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Aims and Objectives
• To introduce recurrence relations for first- and second-order difference equations.
• To introduce the theory of the Leslie model.
• To apply the theory to modeling the population of a single species.
On completion of this chapter, the reader should be able to
• solve first- and second-order homogeneous linear difference equations;
• find eigenvalues and eigenvectors of matrices;
• model a single population with different age classes;
• predict the long-term rate of growth/decline of the population;
• investigate how harvesting and culling policies affect the model.
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Lynch, S. (2014). Linear Discrete Dynamical Systems. In: Dynamical Systems with Applications using MATLAB®. Birkhäuser, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-06820-6_2
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