MIGRATION IN AGE STRUCTURED POPULATION DYNAMICS

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Structured population models of continuous type have received varying degrees of attention in the last two decades. Ecologists, mathematicians and population biologists have observed that structure variables provide more realistic results at reasonable computational expense for a wide variety of bio-populations. Considerably less work has been done in incorporating migration effects in structured models outside of diffusion. Our purpose here is to introduce a model with age-structure (although size or other structure variables are easily added) which contains a simple account of the sort of migration effects widely observed in bio-populations such as fish and bird populations. The model is a partial differential equation model with boundary conditions of the renewal equation type. In Sect. 1 we prove that a unique solution exists for the model with appropriate initial conditions. In Sec. 2 we illustrate how this model may be applied to a certain fishery problem by considering the species pollachius virens. This fish is better known as the saithe. The life history of the saithe may be added to the model, such as periodic birth and transfer (migration) coefficients. When these conditions are added, the solutions for large time have a special character which can be investigated in the general setting of the model. In Sec. 3, we add these extra conditions regarding periodic coefficients and then study the asymptotic behavior of solutions (for large time). We consider a population of \(N(\geq 2)\) numbers divided among patches or locations. Patches may be thought of as distinct but spatial overlap is not excluded in general. Population segments are further distinguished in terms of migratory status.











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