The importance of functional form in optimal control solutions of problems in population dynamics

Ecology

Volumn 83, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 1357-1371

  Runge, Michael C ^a,b   Johnson, Fred A ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b PATUXENT WILDLIFE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c U S FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive management; Compensatory mortality; Density dependence; Equilibrium analysis; Harvest theory; Optimal control theory; Population dynamics; Reproductive function; Stochastic dynamic programming; Survival function

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; DENSITY DEPENDENCE; HARVESTING; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION MODELING; WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT;

ANAS; ANAS SP.;

EID: 0000075444     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(2002)083[1357:TIOFFI]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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