Complexity and demographic stability in population models

Theoretical Population Biology

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 211-225

  Demetrius, Lloyd ^a   Gundlach, Volker Matthias ^b   Ochs, Gunter ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Evolutionarily stable strategy; Evolutionary entropy; Large deviations; Reproductive potential

Indexed keywords

COMPLEXITY; ENTROPY; EVOLUTIONARILY STABLE STRATEGY; POPULATION MODELING; REPRODUCTIVE POTENTIAL;

AGE; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DEMOGRAPHY; ENTROPY; EVOLUTION; HUMAN; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PEDIGREE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SOCIAL CLASS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

AGE FACTORS; DEMOGRAPHY; ENTROPY; EVOLUTION; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; PEDIGREE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SOCIAL CLASS; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 1842686900     PISSN: 00405809     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tpb.2003.12.002     Document Type: Article

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