Research ArticleOpen accessIn the keywordsTowards Some General Ecological PrinciplesArild WikanDiscrete deterministic age-structured, stage-structured and difference delay equation population models are analysed and compared with respect to stability and nonstationary behaviour. All three models show that species with iteroparous life histories tend to be more stable than species with semelparous life histories which allow us to conclude that this must be a fairly general ecological principle. Considering iteroparity, the precocious … …Journal of Mathematics and Statistics, Vol. 8, Issue 4 · 3 Jan 2013 · 6,929 accessesView PDFCite