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Interacting Age Structured Populations

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Both the study of interacting species without age structure and single species with age structure have had a long history in theoretical ecology, beginning with studies in the “golden age” of ecology (Scudo and Ziegler, 1978) by Lotka and Volterra. Only much more recently have there been studies on the dynamics of interacting, age structured models. Such models can quickly get extraordinarily complex, so in this review I will concentrate on the simplest models.

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  • Discrete Time Model
  • Theoretical Ecology
  • Partial Differential Equation Model
  • Isle Royale
  • Adult Predator

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  1. Department of Mathematics and Program in Ecology, University of Tennessee, 37996-1300, Knoxville, TN, USA

    Thomas G. Hallam

  2. Section of Ecology & Systematics and Ecosystems Research Center, Cornell University, 14853-0239, Ithaca, NY, USA

    Simon A. Levin

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Hastings, A. (1986). Interacting Age Structured Populations. In: Hallam, T.G., Levin, S.A. (eds) Mathematical Ecology. Biomathematics, vol 17. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-69888-0_11

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