popbio (version 2.7)

stable.stage: Stable stage distribution

Description

Calculates the stable stage distribution of a projection matrix

Usage

stable.stage(A)

Value

A vector containing the stable stage distribution

Arguments

A

A projection matrix

Author

Chris Stubben

Details

see section 4.5 in Caswell (2001)

References

Caswell, H. 2001. Matrix population models: construction, analysis, and interpretation, Second edition. Sinauer, Sunderland, Massachusetts, USA.

Examples

w <- stable.stage(teasel)
w
barplot(w, col="green", ylim=c(0,1), las=1, main="Teasel",
     ylab="Stable stage proportion", xlab="Stage class")
box()