Stage dynamics, period survival, and mortality plateaus

American Naturalist

Volumn 172, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 203-215

  Horvitz, Carol C ^a   Tuljapurkar, Shripad ^b  

^a Department of Biology   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Age from stage; Cohort dynamics; Killed Markov processes; Long run stochastic mortality rate

Indexed keywords

AGE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; HURRICANE; MORTALITY; SENESCENCE; SURVIVAL; VEGETATION;

POACEAE;

AGING; ANGIOSPERM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PHYSIOLOGY; PINE; SURVIVAL;

AGING; ANGIOSPERMS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PINUS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 49849087249     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/589453     Document Type: Article

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