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Chapter 53.1, Problem 2CC
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To construct: A life table for various populations of the Belding's ground squirrels.
Concept introduction: Demography: is referred as the study of a population's vital statistics like the migration rates, death and birth rates. It is also responsible for studying the changes with respect to time that occurs in the vital statistics. Therefore, for summarizing the information (demographic) life table is important to be made.
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