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Article
Nature 287, 17-21 (4 September 1980) | doi:10.1038/287017a0; Accepted 20 June 1980
Nicholson's blowflies revisited
W. S. C. Gurney, S. P. Blythe & R. M. Nisbet
- Department of Applied Physics, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow G4 0NG, UK
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Abstract
A simple time-delay model of laboratory insect populations which postulates a 'humped' relationship between future adult recruitment and current adult population gives good quantitative agreement with Nicholson's classic blowfly data and explains the appearance of narrow 'discrete' generations in cycling populations.
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