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Growth rate, population entropy, and perturbation theory (English)
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1989
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This paper is concerned with the connection between two classes of population variables: measures of population growth rate - the Malthusian parameter, the net reproduction rate, the gross reproduction rate, and the mean life expectancy; and measures of demographic heterogeneity - population entropy. It is shown that the entropy functions predict the response of the growth rate parameters to perturbations in the age- specific fecundity and mortality schedule. These results are invoked to introduce the notion of environmental intensity. The intensity function, expressed in terms of the entropy parameters, is applied to give a comparative study of the effect of environmental factors on the dynamics of Swedish and French populations.
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measures of population growth rate
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Malthusian parameter
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net reproduction rate
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gross reproduction rate
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mean life expectancy
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measures of demographic heterogeneity
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population entropy
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entropy functions
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perturbations
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age-specific fecundity and mortality
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environmental intensity
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