Nicholson's blowflies revisited

William Gurney; S. Blythe; R.M. Nisbet

doi:10.1038/287017a0

Nicholson's blowflies revisited

William Gurney, S. Blythe, R.M. Nisbet

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Abstract

A simple time-delay model of laboratory insect populations which postulates a ‘humped’ relationship between future adult recruitment and current adult population gives good quantitative agreement with Nicholson's classic blowfly data and explains the appearance of narrow ‘discrete’ generations in cycling populations.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	17-21
Number of pages	5
Journal	Nature
Volume	287
Issue number	5777
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/287017a0
Publication status	Published - 4 Sep 1980

Keywords

cyclical populations
blowfly data

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