The effect of sexual cannibalism on the evolution of large populations

N. Vandewalle

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 1997, vol. 245, issue 1, 113-123

Abstract: The notion of sexual cannibalism is introduced in a simple model of population growth derived from the Bernardes model (J. Phys. I 5 (1995) 1501). The effect of sexual cannibalism is studied at the level of a population of individuals. Even in presence of cannibalism, a population can survive and stabilize for a birth rate b > 2. Before reaching a stable situation, the evolution of the (sexual cannibalism) population presents an unexpected pattern which is not present in the non-cannibalism case.

Keywords: Dynamics of populations; Biological processes; Random processes; Aging model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1997
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DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4371(97)00205-7

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