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Persistent solutions for age-dependent pair-formation models.

R Zacher
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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.

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R Zacher. 2001. Persistent solutions for age-dependent pair-formation models.. https://doi.org/10.1007/s002850100084

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