ENGL121 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Survivorship Curve, Logarithmic Scale, Life Table
3 Feb 2016
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Think about an age structure (tells whether individuals are coming and going, or they are living a long time, etc. ) Remember: a population is made up of a single specie. You could follow an individual from birth do death and follow them for life (cohort). However following a cohort life timetable is hard for some organisms (squirrel), this technique could be more useful for plants. Cohort: most effective way to describe a population, however, it is the hardest. Something else you can do: estimate birth and death form the individuals that die at the same time (they were born at different times). This is a static life table (tells who"s there at a certain time and who"s not) it is a snapshot . Determine an age distribution and using this info and make assumption about individuals that will succeed from one age group to another.
