title: Time delays in age-structured populations.
abstract: A combination of analytical and computational techniques is employed to investigate age-structured populations in which the life cycle consists of two sequential demographic phases. Individuals within each phase have identical demographic rates that are functions of population size, but these rates may differ between phases. A model consisting of a system of delay ordinary differential equations is derived, and existence and stability of equilibria are discussed. Analysis reveals how equilibrium abundances depend on all demographic variables and, in particular, on the lengths of the demographic phases.
authors.affiliation: Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque 87131.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Sulsky
authors.forename: R R
authors.initials: RR
authors.lastname: Vance
authors.forename: W I
authors.initials: WI
authors.lastname: Newman
mesh_terms: D000375:Aging / Q000502:physiology; D000818:Animals; D001723:Birth Rate; D008954:Models, Biological; D009026:Mortality; D011157:Population Dynamics; D013997:Time Factors