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Discrete-Time Dynamics of Structured Populations and Homogeneous Order-Preserving Operators Frank Smith like other children of herA fundamental question in the theory of discrete and continuous time population models concerns the conditions for the extinction or persistence of populations a question that is addressed mathematically by persistence theory. For some time, it has been recognized that if the dynamics of a structured population are mathematically captured by continuous or discrete semiflows and if these semiflows have first order approximations, the spectral radii of