Sensitivity of the population growth rate to demographic variability within and between phases of the disturbance cycle

Ecology Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1331-1341

  Morris, W F ^a   Tuljapurkar, S ^b   Haridas, C V ^b   Menges, E S ^c   Horvitz, C C ^d   Pfister, C A ^e  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ARCHBOLD BIOLOGICAL STATION   (United States)

^d Department of Biology   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Demographic variability; Disturbance; Elasticity; Fire; Life history adaptation; Long run stochastic growth rate; Markov transition matrix; Population projection matrix

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; DEMOGRAPHIC TREND; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; GROWTH RATE; LIFE HISTORY; PERENNIAL PLANT; SURVIVAL;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; CLIMATE; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; HUMAN; PLANT; POPULATION GROWTH; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; CLIMATE; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PLANTS; POPULATION GROWTH; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 33751226884     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2006.00988.x     Document Type: Article

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