Density–Dependent Feedback in Age–Structured Populations

Abstract

The population size has far-reaching effects on the fitness of a population that in turn influences the population extinction or persistence. Understanding the density- and age-dependent factors will facilitate more accurate predictions about the population dynamics and its asymptotic behavior. In this paper, we develop a rigorous mathematical analysis of the study of positive and negative effects of the increased population density in the classical nonlinear age-structured population model. One of the main results expresses the global stability of the system in terms of the newborn function only. We establish the existence of a threshold population size implying the population extinction, which is well known in the population dynamics as the Allee effect.