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Compare cohort and static life tables. What are the main assumptions of each? In what situations or for what organisms would it be practical to use either?

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A cohort life table is made by identifying a large number of individuals born at about the same time, following them from birth to death, and recording each individual’s age at death. One of the main assumptions of a cohort life table is that your cohort is representative of the population as a whole. A cohort life table is most practically used when it is possible to observe and track a large number of individuals born nearly simultaneously. A static life table is constructed by recording the age at death for a large number of individuals in a population. The individuals in a static life table are not all part of a cohort. A static life table assumes that conditions at the time of sampling are representative of conditions in the population throughout time. Static life tables are most useful with long-lived species, where it would be difficult or impossible to follow a cohort through to death.

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