The impact of environmental variation on demographic convergence of Leslie matrix population models: An assessment using Lyapunov characteristic exponents

Theoretical Population Biology

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 18-30

  Grant, Alastair ^b   Benton, Timothy G ^a,b  

^a University of East Anglia ^*  (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONVERGENCE RATES; DEMOGRAPHIC MODELLING; ENVIRONMENTAL VARIATION; LESLIE MATRIX MODEL; LYAPUNOV EXPONENTS; METHODOLOGICAL EVALUATION;

EID: 0030430691     PISSN: 00405809     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/tpbi.1996.0021     Document Type: Article

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