The ASCII file ECOLMON.DAT contains the data used by Dennis et al. (1995) in Ecological Monographs, volume 65, pages 261-281. In this experiment, there was a control (4 replicates) and three demographic perturbations (3 replicates each). The demographic perturbations were imposed at week 10. The data are arranged in a comma-delimited format, with a CR/LF at the end of each record. All entries are numeric. Each record contains the following six fields: Field 1: Treatment coded as 1 = Control 2 = 100 adults added at week 10 3 = all adults removed at week 10 4 = all immatures removed at week 10 Field 2: Replicate coded as 1 = A 2 = B 3 = C 4 = D (controls only) Field 3: Week at census (0, 2, 4, ..., 10, 10, 12, 14, ..., 38) (The two week 10 entries are pre- and post-perturbation.) Field 4: Number of L-stage beetles Field 5: Number of P-stage beetles Field 6: Number of A-stage beetles There are a total of 273 records in the data set.