TY  - JOUR
AU  - Wikan, Arild 
PY  - 2012
TI  - On Nonlinear Age- and Stage-Structured Population Models
JF  - Journal of Mathematics and Statistics
VL  - 8
IS  - 2
DO  - 10.3844/jmssp.2012.311.322
UR  - https://thescipub.com/abstract/jmssp.2012.311.322
AB  - The scope of this review article is to present and discuss various aspects of discrete nonlinear age- and stage-structured population models. We show that such models cover species which exhibit a wide range of different life histories and that one may use them in order to deduce fairly general ecological principles with respect to stability and dynamical outcomes. From a mathematical point of view, we give several examples of the fact that the nonstationary dynamics generated by such maps is indeed rich as a result of different types of bifurcations of various nature as well as other mechanisms like frequency locking and crises that may occur.