Common Kingsnakes (formerly known collectively as Lampropeltis getula) are experiencing localized declines throughout the southeastern United States. Because there have been limited studies to determine how snakes regulate prey populations, and because Kingsnake declines may result in ecosystem impacts, we evaluated the hypothesis that Kingsnakes regulate the abundance of one of their prey, the...

The South Georgia region supports a large biomass of krill that is subject to high interannual variability. The apparent lack of a locally self-maintaining krill population at South Georgia means that understanding the mechanism underlying these observed population characteristics is essential to successful ecosystem-based management of krill fishery in the region. Krill acoustic-density data f...

We investigate the emergent population dynamics of an iterated game in which members of two antagonistic populations are randomly paired in each round. The basic setting is symmetric between these two populations, but this symmetry can be broken by giving the members of the two populations access to different strategy spaces or by assigning different values to parameters determining the composi...

The fluid dimensions of demographic status—age, career progression over time, geographic redistribution, and growing duration of residence—have not been sufficiently recognized in urban theory and policy. Demographic dynamism deserves special attention because it is through the presumed consequences for people that we judge the desirability of economic, political, and physical changes in a city...

In this work we suggest and consider an original, simple mathematical model of a ”quasirapid” extinction population dynamics. It describes a decrease and final extinction of the population of one prey species by a ”quasi-rapid” interaction with one predator species with increasing population. This ”quasi-rapid” interaction means ecologically that prey species behaves practically quite passively...

In this work we suggest a simple mathematical model for the dynamics of the population of children and adolescents without problematic behavior (criminal activities etc.). This model represents a typical population growth equation but with time dependent (linearly decreasing) population growth coefficient. Given equation admits definition of the half-life time of the non-problematic children be...

The purpose of this project is to model multi-species interactions using Volterra-Lotka equations in both two and three dimensions. Changes in population dynamics that arise as a result of modifying parameters are examined. The population dynamics of the resulting systems are analyzed in terms of stability around equilibrium points and within invariant surfaces. Of particular interest is period...

Rhyzopertha dominica is one of the most damaging insect pests in grain elevators and causes millions of dollars worth of stored grain losses annually in the USA. A simulation model was developed for predicting R. dominica population dynamics in concrete grain bins. The model used a two-dimensional representation of a cylindrical concrete bin (33m tall 6.4m wide), and used hourly weather data to...

The European zebra mussel, Dreissena polymorpha (Pallas), has recently been introduced to North American freshwaters. Dreissena exhibits a wide range of population dynamics among different European lakes. In some lakes, long-term population size is fairly constant, while populations in other lakes can fluctuate greatly from year to year. Assessments of the potential ecological and economic effe...

—We related the length at age of channel catfish Ictalurus punctatus, an indirect measure of growth, to three climatic and five morphoedaphic variables in 144 Texas reservoirs. Growth of channel catfish ages 3 through 6 was negatively related to longitude, a factor that explained as much as 34% of the variation in length at age. Channel catfish length at age was not significantly related to lat...