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    Abstract
    Keywords
    1. Introduction
    2. Model
    2.1. Background
    2.2. Initial condition and vitality distribution
    2.3. Parameter estimation
    3. Model characteristics
    3.1. Average senescence
    3.2. Accidental mortality
    3.3. Evolving heterogeneity
    3.4. Initial heterogeneity
    3.5. Characteristic time scales
    3.6. Mean and variance of vitality
    3.7. Hazard rate
    4. Examples
    4.1. Initial and evolving heterogeneities and the medfly survival paradox
    4.2. Effect of diet restriction
    4.3. Effects across life stages
    4.4. Mortality plateaus
    5. Discussion
    Acknowledgments
    Appendix A.
    Appendix B. Supplementary data
    References

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    (a) Depicts individual vitality trajectories (Eq. (4)) and survival (Eq. (8)) ...
    Effect of Eq. (9) parameters on survival. (a) Mean senescence effect from r with ...
    Survival and vitality statistics with age for s=0.1, 0.3, 0.5, 0.9 and r=1, ...
    Hazard rate as a function of age for different ranges of model parameters. (a) ...
    Table 1
    Medfly mortality paradox. (a) Model fitting to male (∘) and female (•) survival ...
    (a) Model fitting to survival data for drosophila with diets with 2%, 4%, 8% or ...
    Table 2
    Yellow perch study. (a) Model fitting to survival fraction data. (b) Normalized ...
    Table 3
    Table A.1
    MMC 1

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Theoretical Population Biology

Volume 76, Issue 2 , September 2009, Pages 118–131
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The vitality model: A way to understand population survival and demographic heterogeneity

    Ting Li a , ,
    James J. Anderson a , b , ,

    a Quantitative Ecology and Resource Management, University of Washington, Box 352182, Seattle, WA 98195, United States
    b School of Aquatic & Fishery Sciences, University of Washington, Box 355020, Seattle, WA 98195, United States

    Received 6 April 2009, Available online 3 June 2009

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