Continuous Structured Population Models for Daphnia magna.
Bull Math Biol
; 79(11): 2627-2648, 2017 11.
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ABSTRACT
We continue our efforts in modeling Daphnia magna, a species of water flea, by proposing a continuously structured population model incorporating density-dependent and density-independent fecundity and mortality rates. We collected new individual-level data to parameterize the individual demographics relating food availability and individual daphnid growth. Our model is fit to experimental data using the generalized least-squares framework, and we use cross-validation and Akaike Information Criteria to select hyper-parameters. We present our confidence intervals on parameter estimates.
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Prognostic_studies
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Animals
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En
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2017
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