Are tsetse fly populations close to equilibrium?
Acta Biotheoretica 44 (3-4) (1996)
| Abstract | Glossina or tsetse flies, the vectors of sleeping sickness, form a unique group of insects with remarkable characteristics. They are viviparous with a slow rhythm of reproduction (one larva approximately every 10 days) determined by the regular ovulation of alternate ovaries. This unusual physiology enables the age of the females to be estimated by examining the ovaries.The resulting ovarian age structure of tsetse fly populations has been used to develop research into the demography of tsetse flies. Several authors have proposed methods of estimating population growth rates from ovarian age distribution data. However, such methods are applicable only when the growth rate () is equal to 1 (i.e. the intrinsic rate of increase r is equal to 0). In fact, in this type of estimation, the adult survival rate a (or equivalently the mortality rate) cannot be dissociated from the growth rate. | |||||||||
| Keywords | No keywords specified (fix it) | |||||||||
| Categories | ||||||||||
| Options |
|
|||||||||
Download options| PhilPapers Archive |
Upload a copy of this paper Check publisher's policy on self-archival Papers currently archived: 5,705 |
| External links |
 |
| Through your library | Configure |
Similar books and articlesChristian Haak (2002). The History of Models. Does It Matter? Mind and Society 3 (1):33-41.
F. Kozusko & M. Bourdeau (2011). Trans-Theta Logistics: A New Family of Population Growth Sigmoid Functions. Acta Biotheoretica 59 (3):273-289.
Marc Jarry, Mohamed Khaladi, Martine Hossaert-McKey & Doyle McKey (1995). Modeling the Population Dynamics of Annual Plants with Seed Bank and Density Dependent Effects. Acta Biotheoretica 43 (1-2).
Mark Colyvan & Lev R. Ginzburg (2003). The Galilean Turn in Population Ecology. Biology and Philosophy 18 (3).
S. Leeson (1991). The Need for Growth Promoting Compounds in Poultry Meat Production. Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 4 (1).
A. Steiner & I. Walker (1990). The Pattern of Population Growth as a Function of Redundancy and Repair. Acta Biotheoretica 38 (2).
Analytics
Monthly downloads |
Added to index2009-01-28Total downloads2 ( #232,628 of 549,198 )Recent downloads (6 months)1 ( #63,397 of 549,198 )How can I increase my downloads? |
My notes
Discussion
