Generation time, net reproductive rate, and growth in stage-age-structured populations

American Naturalist

Volumn 183, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 771-783

  Steiner, Ulrich K ^a,b,c   Tuljapurkar, Shripad ^c   Coulson, Tim ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b INSERM   (France)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Age stage structure; Biodemography; Life history evolution; Multistate models; Population projection; Survival

Indexed keywords

AGE; FITNESS; GENERATION TIME; GROWTH RATE; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION GROWTH; POPULATION STRUCTURE; REPRODUCTION;

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; EVOLUTION; GENETIC SELECTION; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION GROWTH; REPRODUCTION; TIME;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION GROWTH; REPRODUCTION; SELECTION, GENETIC; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84900428942     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/675894     Document Type: Article

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