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The Population Consequences of Life History Phenomena

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The part of Cole’s article included here outlines the relationship of Thompson’s work (1931, paper 20 above) to stable population theory. Omitted sections discuss the relationships between the rate of increase, numbers and spacing of offspring, and age structure, with their implications for species survival.

From Quarterly Review of Biology 29. Excerpts are from pages 107–115.

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Cole, L.C. (1977). The Population Consequences of Life History Phenomena. In: Mathematical Demography. Biomathematics, vol 6. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-81046-6_21

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