Environment-specific elasticity and sensitivity analysis of the stochastic growth rate

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 220, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 605-610

  Åberg, Per ^a   Svensson, Carl Johan ^a   Caswell, Hal ^b   Pavia, Henrik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Elasticity; Management; Population growth rate; Sensitivity; Stochastic matrix models

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION; ELASTICITY; GROWTH (MATERIALS); GROWTH RATE; RANDOM PROCESSES; STOCHASTIC MODELS;

EMPIRICAL STUDIES; LIFE-HISTORY EVOLUTIONS; MANAGEMENT; MANAGEMENT DECISIONS; MATRIX POPULATION MODELS; PERTURBATION ANALYSIS; POPULATION GROWTH RATE; SENSITIVITY; STOCHASTIC ENVIRONMENTS; STOCHASTIC GROWTHS; STOCHASTIC MATRIX MODELS; THREATENED SPECIES; TIME-VARYING MODELS;

SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

DECISION MAKING; ELASTICITY; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; GROWTH RATE; LIFE HISTORY; PERTURBATION; POPULATION MODELING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPECIES CONSERVATION; STOCHASTICITY;

EID: 58949104579     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2008.11.014     Document Type: Article

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