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Professor D’Ancona has asked me if it is possible to state the mating conditions under which a population living under defined environmental conditions will decrease and vanish or, on the contrary, continue to grow steadily larger.
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Volterra, V. (1978). Population growth, equilibria, and extinction under specified breeding conditions: a development and extension of the theory of the logistic curve. In: The Golden Age of Theoretical Ecology: 1923–1940. Lecture Notes in Biomathematics, vol 22. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-50151-7_3
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