The Mathematics of Bird Population Growth and Decline
- 1 November 1954
- journal article
- research article
- Published by JSTOR in Journal of Animal Ecology
- Vol. 23 (2) , 215-223
- https://doi.org/10.2307/1980
Abstract
The annual changes in a bird population with constant mortality and fertility can be calculated with the aid of tables here given. Under these conditions a population of a species maturing at 1 year remains steady, or increases or decreases in a geometrical progression. If maturity is postponed for 2 or more years, there are damped oscillations round stability or a geometric progression. The relation between mortality and fertility is calculated in the general case, and some applications to published work are given.This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:
- Some Animal Life TablesJournal of the Institute of Actuaries, 1953