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Survivorship curves
Everything dies, but on different schedules
Life table
T = xlxmx
- R0
299 306 313 320 327 334 341 348 355
R0 = lxmx
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Survivorship curves Everything dies, but on different schedules 0 - - PDF document
Survivorship curves Everything dies, but on different schedules 0 - - PDF document
Survivorship curves Everything dies, but on different schedules 0 299 306 313 320 327 334 341 348 355 xl x m x T = R 0 What are the units of R 0 ? Life table What are the units of T? R 0 = l x m x ? Exponential growth Human
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Human population Where will it stop… Gotta stop somewhere - logistic growth What influences K?
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Damuth’s rule Population size decreases with body size rmax changes with size too
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