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stoch.sens: Stochastic growth rate sensitivity

Description

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

Usage

stoch.sens(A, tlimit = 100)

Value

A list with two elements:

sensitivities

sensitivities of the stochastic growth rate

elasticities

elasticities of the stochastic growth rate

Arguments

A

a list of matrices

tlimit

time limit, default 100

Author

James Holland Jones

Details

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

References

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

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

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stoch.sens(hudsonia)

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