Astakhov M.V.
Zoologicheskiy zhurnal 2017; 96(5): 597-600
Based on the notion of age distribution stationarity in thanatocenoses, a reconstruction algorithm of the recruitment dynamics in Conchifera populations is advanced. The number of individuals that achieved an age of 1+ is taken as the recruitment size because in the populations of long-lived mollusks the formation of generations is completed not earlier than during the second year of life. The average long-term annual value of recruitment is proposed to be considered as an index of the background state of such populations.
