Good points. If I understand you correctly, these sorts of benefits from population size (independent of the amount of resources/habitat area available) would be essentially the converse of density-independent mortality factors. I’ve tried to use the term “density” quite broadly here so that effects like these could be accounted for in a single density-dependent welfare curve.
Good points. If I understand you correctly, these sorts of benefits from population size (independent of the amount of resources/habitat area available) would be essentially the converse of density-independent mortality factors. I’ve tried to use the term “density” quite broadly here so that effects like these could be accounted for in a single density-dependent welfare curve.