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American Zoologist 1981 21(4):831-844; doi:10.1093/icb/21.4.831
© 1981 by The Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology
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Predicting Populations1

GEORGE OSTER
Department of Entomology, University of California Berkeley, California 94720

Deterministic models are valuable for gaining insight into the mechanisms of population dynamics. However, they are not generally useful for the practical problem of estimating real populations. Herein we present a method for estimating the birth and death rates as well as the age structure for a population using only "aggregated" measurements such as total adult deaths and birthrates. The method applies to nonstationary populations with nonlinear birth and deathrates.


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