Stage structure models of populations with distinct growth and development processes

Nisbet, R.M. and Gurney, William and Blythe, S.P. and Metz, J.A.J. (1985) Stage structure models of populations with distinct growth and development processes. IMA Journal of Mathematics Applied in Medicine and Biology, 2 (1). pp. 57-68. ISSN 0265-0746 (https://doi.org/10.1093/imammb/2.1.57)

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Abstract

We extend the repertoire of stage-structure models which can be described in terms of delay-differential equations, by analysing models where the processes of growth and development within a stage are distinct. This permits the use of delay-differential equation models in situations where both population numbers and total biomass are dynamically significant.