Lecture 7. Model of Leslie

Course: Quantitative Population Ecology
Dept. of Entomology, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA

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The model of Leslie is one of the most healivy used models in population ecology. This is a discrete-time model of an age-structured population which describes development, mortality, and reproduction of organisms. The model is formulated using linear algebra. This model is mostly used to answer the following two questions:

  1. What is the rate of exponential growth (intrinsic rate of increase)?
  2. What is the proportion of each age class in the stable age distribution?


Alexei Sharov 1/12/96