In 1945 the British ecologist P.H. Leslie analyzed a matrix model for an age-structured population of rodents, thus adapting Lotka’s work to a discrete-time framework. He emphasized that the growth rate corresponds to an eigenvalue and the “stable” age structure to an eigenvector. He also estimated numerically the “net reproduction rate” R 0 for the brown rat.
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Bacaër, N. (2011). The Leslie matrix (1945). In A Short History of Mathematical Population Dynamics (pp. 117–120). Springer London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-85729-115-8_21
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