The Natural Regulation of Animal Numbers¶
Lack, D. (1954). The Natural Regulation of Animal Numbers. Clarendon Press.
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- Reserve
- The structural insight is robust across substrates that share no domain vocabulary: a cardiologist's cardiac reserve (heart capacity beyond resting output, drawn on under exertion, in the homeostatic vocabulary of Cannon, 1932), an ecologist's seed bank (dormant seeds in soil drawn on after disturbance, in the life-history vocabulary of Lack, 1954), a grid operator's spinning reserve (generation capacity synchronized and ready), a CFO's liquidity buffer (cash held against redemption shocks), and an engineer's safety factor (load capacity above maximum expected stress, in the structural-engineering vocabulary of Petroski, 1985) all instantiate the same five-role pattern.
This sourceIntegrates clutch size, energy reserves, and life-history strategy into a framework for population regulation; the canonical ecological treatment of held energetic and reproductive surpluses against environmental contingency.
- The structural insight is robust across substrates that share no domain vocabulary: a cardiologist's cardiac reserve (heart capacity beyond resting output, drawn on under exertion, in the homeostatic vocabulary of Cannon, 1932), an ecologist's seed bank (dormant seeds in soil drawn on after disturbance, in the life-history vocabulary of Lack, 1954), a grid operator's spinning reserve (generation capacity synchronized and ready), a CFO's liquidity buffer (cash held against redemption shocks), and an engineer's safety factor (load capacity above maximum expected stress, in the structural-engineering vocabulary of Petroski, 1985) all instantiate the same five-role pattern.
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