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Age-grouping of Insects, Time-specific Life-tables and Predictive Population Models

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This chapter is concerned with techniques for animals whose generations overlap widely; age-grouping is a prerequisite for these methods which have been most widely applied with vertebrate populations. Analysis is easiest with two extreme types of population-the stationary and the expanding. If the population can be assumed to be stationary, then the fall-off in numbers in successive age groups will reflect the survivorship curve and thus a time-specific (or vertical) life-table can be constructed on this basis (p. 393). If the population is expanding, unconstrained by its environment, the age structure may become stabilized and then mortality can be estimated from the difference between expected and actual growth rates (p. 370). Age-grouping may also provide useful information on the fertility or potential fertility of the population (see p. 302).

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