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Ecological concepts and ecologists have played a prominent role in the development of two rather different kinds of models for dealing with consumer-resource relations. One kind can be called a population model because it represents a device employed to identify the ways in which a population is related to its resources and deals with some set of summary statistics that describe the population. The most fashionable population model is built around the concepts of r-species and K-species. The second kind of model is represented by Darwinian models. Darwinian models deal with relations within a single population and they have gained new utility through the use of energy budget concepts and life table statistics. Darwinian models must be species specific in order to deal with the interactions between the individuals of a population and be able to predict how the interactions may affect the contribution females make to the next generation.
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Mitchell, R. (1975). Models for Parasite Populations. In: Price, P.W. (eds) Evolutionary Strategies of Parasitic Insects and Mites. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-8732-3_3
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