Hostname: page-component-745bb68f8f-mzp66 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2025-01-12T09:01:23.494Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

LIFE TABLE DATA FOR USE IN DETERMINISTIC AND STOCHASTIC SIMULATION MODELS PREDICTING THE GROWTH OF INSECT POPULATIONS UNDER MALTHUSIAN CONDITIONS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

J. M. Hardman
J. M. Hardman
Affiliation:
CSIRO, Division of Entomology, Canberra City, A.C.T., Australia
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

Life table data from a laboratory strain of Tribolium confusum (DuVal) were obtained for use in deterministic and stochastic models of population growth under optimal environmental conditions. Frequency distributions of mortality, developmental time, and age-specific fecundity schedules taken from experiments conducted at five constant temperatures were transposed onto a physiological time scale measured in degree-days. Data of this detail were necessary for use in models that could predict the growth of laboratory populations of the same strain of beetle reared under optimal conditions.

Type
Articles
Information
The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 108 , Issue 9 , September 1976 , pp. 897 - 906
Copyright
Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1976

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Birch, L. C. 1948. The intrinsic rate of natural increase of an insect population. J. Anim. Ecol. 17: 15–26.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Brereton, J. Le Gay. 1962. A laboratory study of population regulation in Tribolium confusum. Ecology 43: 63–69.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Conway, G. R. and Murdie, G.. 1971. Population models as a basis for pest control. In Jeffers, J. N. R. (Ed.), Mathematical models in ecology. Blackwell, Oxford.Google Scholar
Deevy, E. S. 1947. Life tables for natural populations of animals. Q. Rev. Biol. 22: 283–314.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Deevy, E. S. 1950. The probability of death. Scient. Am. 182: 58–60.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Howe, R. W. 1952. The biology of the rice weevil, Calandra oryzae (L.). Ann. appl. Biol. 39: 168–180.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Howe, R. W. 1953. Studies on beetles of the family Ptinidae. VIII. The intrinsic rate of increase of some ptinid beetles. Ann. appl. Biol. 40: 121–133.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Howe, R. W. 1963. The prediction of the status of a pest by means of laboratory experiments. In World review of pest control, spring 1963, Vol. 2, Part 1, pp. 1–11.Google Scholar
Howe, R. W. 1967. Temperature effects on embryonic development in insects. A. Rev. Ent. 12: 15–42.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Howe, R. W. 1968. A further consideration of the heterogeneity of the developmental period of Tribolium castaneum (Herbst). (Col. Tenebrionidae) in constant environmental conditions. J. stored Prod. Res. 4: 221–231.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Hughes, R. D. 1973. Computer simulations of aphid populations, pp. 85–91. In Lowe, A. D. (Ed.), Perspectives in aphid biology. Bull. ent. Soc. N.Z. 2.Google Scholar
Kowal, N. E. 1971. A rationale for modelling dynamic ecological systems, pp. 123–196. In Patten, B.C. (Ed)., Systems analysis and simulation in ecology. I. Academic Press, New York.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Lefkovitch, L. P. 1966. A population growth model incorporating delayed responses. Bull. math. Biophys. 28: 219–233.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
May, R. M. 1973. Stability and complexity in model ecosystems. Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J.Google ScholarPubMed
Mertz, D. B. 1969. Age-distribution and abundance in populations of flour beetles. I. Experimental studies. Ecol. Monogr. 39: 1–31.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Niven, B. S. 1967. The stochastic simulation of Tribolium populations. Physiol. Zool. 40: 67–82.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Odum, E. P. 1973. Fundamentals of ecology. W. B. Saunders, Toronto.Google Scholar
Park, T. and Frank, M. B.. 1948. The fecundity and development of the flour beetles Tribolium confusum and Tribolium castaneum, at three constant temperatures. Ecology 29: 368–374.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Park, T. et al. 1965. Cannibalistic predation in populations of flour beetles. Physiol. Zool. 38: 298–321.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Solomon, M. E. 1951. Control of relative humidity with potassium hydroxide, sulphuric acid, or other solutions. Bull. ent. Res. 42: 543–544.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Solomon, M. E. 1953. The population dynamics of storage pests. Proc. 12th int. Congr. Ent. (Montreal), Vol. 2, pp. 235–248.Google Scholar