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The balance between births and deaths in an age-structured population is strongly influenced by the spatial distribution of sub-populations. Our aim was to describe the demographic process of a fish population in an hierarchical dendritic river network, by taking into account the possible movements of individuals. We tried also to quantify the effect of river network changes (damming or channelling) on the global fish population dynamics. The Salmo trutta life pattern was taken as an example for.
We proposed a model which includes the demographic and the migration processes, considering migration fast compared to demography. The population was divided into three age-classes and subdivided into fifteen spatial patches, thus having 45 state variables. Both processes were described by means of constant transfer coefficients, so we were dealing with a linear system of difference equations. The discrete case of the variable aggregation method allowed the study of the system through the dominant elements of a much simpler linear system with only three global variables: the total number of individuals in each age-class.
From biological hypothesis on demographic and migratory parameters, we showed that the global population dynamics of fishes is well characterized in the reference river network, and that dams could have stronger effects on the global dynamics than channelling.
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Charles, S., de la Parra, R.B., Mallet, J. et al. Population Dynamics Modelling in an Hierarchical Arborescent River Network: An Attempt with Salmo trutta. Acta Biotheor 46, 223–234 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1001785110237
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