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