The applicability of some population growth models to single species laboratory populations

JORGE RABINOVICH

ANNALS OF THE ENTOMOLOGYCAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA

ENTOMOLOGICAL SOC AMER

Lugar: Lanham; Año: 1969 p. 437 - 443

0013-8746

Three mathematical models of population growth, show- the amplitude and damping of the oscillations, but only if ing many improvements over the almost obsolete logistic an unkonwn time lag of 6 days could be identified with some model, were tested with laboratory data of the pteromalid biological meaning. Leslie's model fails to predict numerwasp Nasonia uiiripennis (Walker). The models fat! to ically the population trends but seems to show that densuccessfully predict the population trends of this species sities of the wasp's immature stages within the host pupae when reared under laboratory conditions. Utida's model are more important in controlling population fluctuations shows no possible applicability for the type of population than are adult densities. growth of this species. Cunningham's model accounts for