What good is R(o) in demographic analysis? (And what is a generation anyway?)

Wildlife Society Bulletin

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 709-710

  Gregory, Patrick T ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

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