Figure 10.8 (A) and (B) illustrated a huge decline before rising back up and then flattening out. Where lambda is eventually beginning to settle to a constant value although we still see smaller increases and decreases throughout the years. Some of the reasons these differences could have occurred could be the difference in the number of newborns present. In addition, we only show data for up to 5 years versus 11 years and we had the low number of three-year olds compared to the graph 10.8. Where we could see the oldest generation had the most abundant members and the newborns had the least. As we have learned during lecture, if reproduction rates and age-specific survival rates have no change, then the population growth rate will eventually be stable. Based on the graph and what we have learned, in the future years we will see population stabilizing and stay the same that is if the age specific survival rate has no change.
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