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Vaccination and population dynamics of an epidemic
I'm trying to figure out how should a vaccination model be built to correlate with population density, and I'm having problems to understand meanings of the results I receive when I apply theory on ...
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Does finite rate of increase depend on mortality of individuals in a population?
As written in my lecture handouts, there two main factors in the Geometric Growth Model of populations:
$R_{0}$ is the expected lifetime reproductive output. This way, for unicellulars, for example, ...
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How does population stability evolve?
The number of individuals constituting a population is called population size. Over time population size does not remain constant, it fluctuates to different extent over generations because of ...
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When are population dynamics models useful?
When are population dynamics models useful? There seems to have been a lot of research about it, but how does it help? If I need data about how a population will evolve under what conditions, I need ...
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Smallest viable reproducing population
What is the smallest viable reproducing population, such as in a human population. By viable I mean a population which keeps genetic defects low (enough).
A very strongly related question: what is ...
