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The study of the dynamics of natural biological populations is often hampered by the difficulty of determining the ages of individuals. However, this problem can sometimes be circumvented by working in terms of a stage structure rather than an age structure. The life cycle of the individuals in a population may consist of a series of recognizable morphological stages that are entered, one after another, until death. It is then possible to model the dynamics of such a population in terms of the distributions of the durations of stages and temporal survival rates.
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© 1990 Bryan F. J. Manly
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Manly, B.F.J. (1990). Stage-structured populations. In: Stage-Structured Populations. Population and Community Biology Series. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-0843-7_1
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