Theoretical Population Dynamics Forum

This forum will promote discussion of the concepts central to the study of understanding how and why natural populations fluctuate (or don’t) in density over time. Topics will focus on within and between species interactions; for example, the shape of density dependence, age/stage structure, between species interactions (including natural enemies, competition, mutualism, Allee effects) and spatial structure. The interaction of underlying deterministic processes with stochastic (environmental) forcing will also be relevant material for discussion.

This Forum has been set up in response to a proposal from Dr. Alan Berryman, who desired an open discussion on these issues:

The web site was designed to investigate whether there is or can be a fundamental theory of population dynamics. A theory should be simple, elegant and clean. It should apply under all conditions to real data collected in real ways. It should be parsimonious. It should be explained verbally. It should have a single mathematical formulation. Does it require a new mathematics?

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