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Structured Population Dynamics

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Frontiers in Mathematical Biology

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Biomathematics ((LNBM,volume 100))

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Population dynamics attempts to account for changes in the sizes of biological populations. This is a fundamental problem in biology that has occupied scientists’ attention since at least Aristotle. It is a problem of not only intrinsic interest, but of fundamental importance in other biological investigations as well. Models of population dynamics form the bases of models in ecology, genetics, theories of evolution, cell dynamics, epidemiology, resource management, bioeconomics, ecotoxicology, sociobiology and many other disciplines of the biological, medical, and environmental sciences. Given a biological population’s natural propensity for exponential growth and the finiteness of our natural world, at the heart of this problem is the fundamental problem of how population numbers are “regulated”, i.e. how they are kept from growing without bound.

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Cushing, J.M. (1994). Structured Population Dynamics. In: Levin, S.A. (eds) Frontiers in Mathematical Biology. Lecture Notes in Biomathematics, vol 100. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-50124-1_17

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