Application of System Dynamics Concepts to the Simulation of Insect Populations
ABSTRACT THE concept of System Dynamics may be applied to biological sys-tems such as insect populations. This technique catagorizes system components into levels, rates, auxiliaries and constants with primary modeling efforts directed toward rate deter-mination. Because the driving force behind insect development is not chronological time, the needed modi-fications to the standard System Dy-namics approach are given.