Life not lived due to disequilibrium in heterogeneous age-structured populations
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instance of: scholarly article
title: Life not lived due to disequilibrium in heterogeneous age-structured populations
zbMATH Open document ID: 0609.92030
DOI: 10.1016/0040-5809(86)90016-X
author: Robert A. Desharnais
author: Joel E. Cohen
published in: Theoretical Population Biology
publication date: 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z
review text: In this paper three models of age-structured populations with demographically heterogeneous subpopulations are analyzed. All three models ignore nonlinear interactions between sexes. The models are therefore most naturally interpreted as applying to a single sex, or to a two-sex population in which the sex not described is present in abundance. In the first model, each subpopulation has its own age-specific vital rates, fixed in time, and grows independently of all others. In the second, each subpopulation has its own age-specific vital rates, and these are all uniformly inhibited by increasing the total numbers of individuals. In the third, each subpopulation has its own age-specific vital rates, but the vital rates of groups of these subpopulations are inhibited by the total numbers of individuals in other groups of subpopulations with an intensity that depends on the interacting pair of groups of subpopulations. It is described how disequilibrium affects total population size. Three functions \(H_ p\), \(H_ V\), and \(H_ N\) are defined which measure disequilibrium in the subpopulation frequencies, subpopulation age structures, and total population size, respectively. For the first model, it is shown that disequilibrium will shift the trajectory of the total numbers of individuals by an amount that is asymptotically constant and that this constant is proportional to the sum \(H_ p+H_ V.\) For the second model, sufficient conditions for the existence of a globally stable equilibrium are established. For the last model, the results of the second model are extended to two or more interacting populations. The results are illustrated using the census data and demographic projection matrices of Keyfitz and Flieger (1968) for Mexico, the United States, and Canada in the year 1962.
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 92D25
zbMATH DE Number: 3987108
zbMATH Keywords: demography
zbMATH Keywords: models of age-structured populations
zbMATH Keywords: demographically heterogeneous subpopulations
zbMATH Keywords: age-specific vital rates
zbMATH Keywords: disequilibrium
zbMATH Keywords: total population size
zbMATH Keywords: subpopulation frequencies
zbMATH Keywords: subpopulation age structures
zbMATH Keywords: existence of a globally stable equilibrium
zbMATH Keywords: census data
zbMATH Keywords: demographic projection matrices
zbMATH Keywords: Mexico
zbMATH Keywords: United States
zbMATH Keywords: Canada
reviewed by: T. Postelnicu
MaRDI profile type: MaRDI publication profile
Wikidata QID: Q69581052
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