Extinction dynamics of age-structured populations in a fluctuating environment.
AUTOR(ES)
Lande, R
RESUMO
We model density-independent growth of an age- (or stage-) structured population, assuming that mortality and reproductive rates fluctuate as stationary time series. Analytical formulas are derived for the distribution of time to extinction and the cumulative probability of extinction before a certain time, which are determined by the initial age distribution, and by the infinitesimal mean and variance, mu and sigma 2, of a diffusion approximation for the logarithm of total population size. These parameters can be estimated from the average life history and the pattern of environmental fluctuations in the vital rates. We also show that the distribution of time to extinction (conditional on the event) depends on the magnitude but not the sign of mu. When the environmental fluctuations in vital rates are small or moderate, the diffusion approximation gives accurate estimates of cumulative extinction probabilities obtained from computer simulations.
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