| Title |
A Fundamental Principle Governing Populations
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Acta Biotheoretica, May 2012
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| DOI | 10.1007/s10441-012-9160-6 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Marvin Chester |
| Abstract |
Proposed here is that an overriding principle of nature governs all population behavior; that a single tenet drives the many regimes observed in nature-exponential--like growth, saturated growth, population decline, population extinction, and oscillatory behavior. The signature of such an all embracing principle is a differential equation which, in a single statement, embraces the entire panoply of observations. In current orthodox theory, this diverse range of population behaviors is described by many different equations-each with its own specific justification. Here, a single equation governing all the regimes is proposed together with the principle from which it derives. The principle is: The effect on the environment of a population's success is to alter that environment in a way that opposes the success. Experiments are suggested which could validate or refute the theory. Predictions are made about population behaviors. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 8 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 3 | 38% |
| Lecturer | 1 | 13% |
| Professor | 1 | 13% |
| Student > Bachelor | 1 | 13% |
| Student > Master | 1 | 13% |
| Other | 1 | 13% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 2 | 25% |
| Environmental Science | 1 | 13% |
| Computer Science | 1 | 13% |
| Physics and Astronomy | 1 | 13% |
| Earth and Planetary Sciences | 1 | 13% |
| Other | 1 | 13% |
| Unknown | 1 | 13% |
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