Research Article

Properties in Stage-Structured Population Models with Deterministic and Stochastic Resource Growth

Table 2

Ecological and economic parameters. The column Unit is the unit dimensions before rescaling into nondimensional parameters.

SymbolValueUnitInterpretation

1Half-saturation constant of consumers
1Mass-specific metabolic rate
1Resource turnover rate
2Maximum resource density
0.5Efficiency of resource ingestion
0.955Proportion of logistic vs semichemostat
0.01Deterministic error bound for resilience
0.1Stochastic error bound for resilience
0.1Size at birth
10Size at maturation
10Maximum ingestion rate per unit of biomass
0.85Proportionality constant of ingestion ability between juveniles and adults
0.1Natural mortality rate
Harvesting rate of juveniles and adults
0.2Volatility in resource growth
0.035Threshold value of resource density
0.009Minimum viable population