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| author | Mills, Elise Clark, Graeme F. Simpson, Matthew J. Baird, Mark Adams, Matthew P. |
| author_facet | Mills, Elise Clark, Graeme F. Simpson, Matthew J. Baird, Mark Adams, Matthew P. |
| contents | Sigmoid growth models are often used to study population dynamics. The size of a population at equilibrium commonly depends explicitly on the availability of resources, such as an energy or nutrient source, which is not explicit in standard sigmoid growth models. A simple generalised extension of sigmoid growth models is introduced that can explicitly account for this resource-dependence, demonstrated by three examples of this family of models of increasing mathematical complexity. Each model is calibrated and compared to observed data for algae under sea-ice in Antarctic coastal waters. It was found that through careful construction, models satisfying the proposed framework can estimate key properties of a sea-ice break-out controlled tipping point for the algae, which cannot be estimated using standard sigmoid growth models. The proposed broader family of energy-dependent sigmoid growth models likely has usage in many population growth contexts where resources limit population size. |
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| publishDate | 2024 |
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| spellingShingle | A generalised sigmoid population growth model with energy dependence: application to quantify the tipping point for Antarctic shallow seabed algae Mills, Elise Clark, Graeme F. Simpson, Matthew J. Baird, Mark Adams, Matthew P. Populations and Evolution Sigmoid growth models are often used to study population dynamics. The size of a population at equilibrium commonly depends explicitly on the availability of resources, such as an energy or nutrient source, which is not explicit in standard sigmoid growth models. A simple generalised extension of sigmoid growth models is introduced that can explicitly account for this resource-dependence, demonstrated by three examples of this family of models of increasing mathematical complexity. Each model is calibrated and compared to observed data for algae under sea-ice in Antarctic coastal waters. It was found that through careful construction, models satisfying the proposed framework can estimate key properties of a sea-ice break-out controlled tipping point for the algae, which cannot be estimated using standard sigmoid growth models. The proposed broader family of energy-dependent sigmoid growth models likely has usage in many population growth contexts where resources limit population size. |
| title | A generalised sigmoid population growth model with energy dependence: application to quantify the tipping point for Antarctic shallow seabed algae |
| topic | Populations and Evolution |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.15002 |