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Integral projection models (IPMs) use information on how an individual's state influences its vital rates – sur- vival, growth and reproduction – to make ...
Population genetics is concerned with the study of the genetic composition of popula- tions. This composition may be changed by segregation, selection, ...
When Darwin first proposed his theory of evolution, there was no understanding of the genetic system. This changed with Mendel's work, and in the early 1900s, ...
The primary advantages of integrated models are (1) the ability to compensate for variability in data collection by reducing biases inherent in a single data ...
RESEARCH THEMES. Research questions in evolutionary biology are highly interrelated. Answering fundamental questions about organismal adaptation, for example ...
All of these models explicitly or implicitly assume that populations are the important entity of ecological systems. Individual varia- tion, when considered, is ...
Perhaps the central theme in population genetics theory is the examination of the change in the genetic make-up of a population as time goes on as a result of ...
The theory suggests that, during the agricultural stage of development, resource surpluses beyond the maintenance of subsistence consumption were channeled ...
by P Hedrick · Cited by 25 — About 40 years ago, scientists first strongly advocated the integration of population ecology and population genetics into population biology (Singh and ...
The theory of population proposed in Lotka's two main works was formulated as a contribution to evolutionary biology. The Elements of Physical ...
Stochastic models have the advantage of both characterizing the central tendencies of a population (similar to deterministic models) and addressing at least ...
by B Oborny · 2005 · Cited by 117 — In this paper, we review how contact processes may contribute to understanding population persistence by deducing the biological problem to a well- studied ...
The techniques developed in this section can be developed into a theory that completely describes the solutions to linear difference equations of any order. 3.1 ...
This chapter presents an overview of the mathematical models associated with population ecology. Since the inception of the academic subject of ecology, ...
The best way to develop intuition about population dynamics is to study simple mathematical models. Let us consider, then, the dynamics of simple models of ...
Using concepts from basic population biology, biologists have distinguished two strategies for population growth. Some species have characteristics that allow ...
Assessing how abiotic and biotic environmental fac- tors influence demographic processes is necessary to understand and predict population dynamics, as well as ...
Genes in populations – end of the beginning (with J. F. Crow and M. Kimura). Review of An Introduction to Population Genetics. Theory. Quart. Rev. Biol. 46 ...
Another use of population models is to conceptualize the dynamics of a population in a rigorous mathematical notation. Such a conceptual model allows biologists ...
What is microevolution? Microevolution is evolutionary change below the species level; change in the allele frequencies in a population over generations.
