title: Persistent solutions for age-dependent pair-formation models.
abstract: Conditions on the vital rates and the mating function are derived which imply existence or nonexistence of exponentially growing persistent age-distributions for age-dependent pair-formation models.
authors.affiliation: Fachbereich Mathematik und Informatik, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, Germany. rico@volterra.mathematik.uni-halle.de
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Zacher
mesh_terms: D017677:Age Distribution; D000367:Age Factors; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008954:Models, Biological; D011157:Population Dynamics; D012098:Reproduction; D012725:Sexual Behavior