Modeling vital rates improves estimation of population projection matrices

Population Ecology

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 79-89

  Gross, Kevin ^a   Morris, William F ^b   Wolosin, Michael S ^b   Doak, Daniel F ^c  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Information criteria; Model selection; Multimodel averaging; Vital rates

Indexed keywords

MATRIX; METHODOLOGY; POPULATION MODELING;

CARYOPHYLLACEAE; SILENE; SILENE ACAULIS;

EID: 31544451032     PISSN: 14383896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10144-005-0238-8     Document Type: Article

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