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Dynamics of Age- and Size-Structured Populations: Intraspecific Competition

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Size-Structured Populations

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In most organisms different aged individuals differ in size and morphology. In some taxa the body weight of individuals within species spans 4 or more orders of magnitude (Werner and Gilliam 1984). The radical changes in morphology accompanying metamorphosis in organisms with complex life cycles is well known to all biologists. Such variation within a species will have important evolutionary and population dynamic consequences. In this chapter I will discuss the implications of such differences in size/morphology on the intensity of competition between age classes, and show that competition between age classes can have interesting population dynamic consequences.

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  1. Department of Biology, Linköping University, 581 83, Linköping, Sweden

    B. Ebenman

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  1. Department of Biology, University of Linköping, S-581 83, Linköping, Sweden

    Bo Ebenman

  2. Department of Ecology, Limnology, P.O. Box 65, S-22100, Lund, Sweden

    Lennart Persson

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Ebenman, B. (1988). Dynamics of Age- and Size-Structured Populations: Intraspecific Competition. In: Ebenman, B., Persson, L. (eds) Size-Structured Populations. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-74001-5_9

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