Modelling environmental stochasticity in adult survival for a long-lived species

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 221, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 423-427

  Samaranayaka, Ari ^a   Fletcher, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Beta distribution; Environmental stochasticity; Logit normal; Matrix population model; Probit normal

Indexed keywords

AGE STRUCTURED MODEL; ANIMAL POPULATIONS; BETA DISTRIBUTIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL STOCHASTICITY; NORMAL MATRICES; POPULATION MODEL; REALISTIC MODEL; STANDARD DEVIATION; STOCHASTIC GROWTH; STOCHASTIC MATRICES; STOCHASTICITY;

NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; STANDARDS; STATISTICS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

STOCHASTIC MODELS;

ENVIRONMENTAL MODELING; LOGIT ANALYSIS; MATRIX; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION MODELING; SPECIES EVENNESS; STOCHASTICITY;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 72049097121     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2009.10.016     Document Type: Article

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