Consumption driven population dynamics (CDPD): Further explorations

Richard P. Bentley

Ecological Modelling, 2012, vol. 246, issue C, 131-146

Abstract: The consumption driven population dynamics (CDPD) model, described and demonstrated in my previous paper (Bentley, 2006), suggests a fundamental structure connecting all life produced by simple, independent mechanisms for mass gain and loss that are determined by those constraints of natural law governing transfers of mass and energy. This basic system may be modified to a greater or lesser degree by additional mechanisms that account for living and nonliving elements of the environment, much of which is stochastic. Collectively, this accounts for the broad range of population dynamics we observe within the web of linkages connecting all living things.

Keywords: Birth; Death; Population; Consumption; Environment; Model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2012.07.019

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