popbio (version 2.4.4)

stoch.sens: stoch.sens

Description

Calculates the sensitivity of the stochastic growth rate to perturbations in the mean demographic projection matrix.

Usage

stoch.sens(A, tlimit=100)

Arguments

A

a list of matrices

tlimit

time limit, default 100

Value

A list with two elements:

sensitivities

sensitivities of the stochastic growth rate

elasticities

elasticities of the stochastic growth rate

Details

Function copied from demogR package since it was removed from CRAN. See section 14.4.1 in Caswell 2001.

References

Caswell, H. 2001. Matrix population models: Construction, analysis, and interpretation. 2nd ed. Sunderland, MA: Sinauer.

Haridas, C. V., and S. Tuljapurkar. 2005. Elasticities in variable environments: Properties and implications. American Naturalist 166 (4):481-495.

Tuljapurkar, S. 1990. Population dynamics in variable environments. Vol. 85, Lecture notes in biomathematics. Berlin: Springer-Veralg.

Tuljapurkar, S., and C. V. Haridas. 2006. Temporal autocorrelation and stochastic population growth. Ecology Letters 9 (3):324-334.

See Also

eigen.analysis

Examples

# NOT RUN {
data(hudsonia)
stoch.sens(hudsonia)

# }