TY - JOUR
AU - Park, Thomas
AB - THE INTRINSIC RATE OF NATURAL INCREASE OF TRIBOLIUM CASTANEUM HERBST. P. H. LESLIE AND THOMAS PARK Burea_u of. Aiiimal Population, Department of Zoological Field Studies, Oxford University, and the Hull Zoological Laboratory, The University of Chicago INTRODUCTION approach to these problems, and also practical applications, in his publications It is evident that the methods employed ('25, '39, '45: also Dublin and Lotka, '25). in human demography have much to of­ In applying these methods it is cus­ fer for modern population ecology. The t?mary, for the sake of simplicity, to con­ early work of Raymond Pearl and his as­ sider only the female population, and the sociates on the computation of life tables basic data required in order to carry out for other forms of life besides man is well the computations are: known, and it may be said that these pio­ neer studies did much to initiate all the (a) the life table or l,, function, giving the later work in this field. Recently, Deevey probability at birth of a female being ('47), impressed by the demonstrated alive at age x, so that the force of value of life tables in human and labora­ mortality µ,, = - 
TI - The Intrinsic Rate of Natural Increase of Tribolium Castaneum Herbst.
JF - Ecology
DO - 10.2307/1932450
DA - 1949-10-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/wiley/the-intrinsic-rate-of-natural-increase-of-tribolium-castaneum-herbst-MQov2A8W98
SP - 469
EP - 477
VL - 30
IS - 4
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