Causes and consequences of variation in plant population growth rate: a synthesis of matrix population models in a phylogenetic context

Ecology Letters

Volumn 13, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1182-1197

  Buckley, Yvonne M ^a,b   Ramula, Satu ^c   Blomberg, Simon P ^a   Burns, Jean H ^d   Crone, Elizabeth E ^e   Ehrlén, Johan ^f   Knight, Tiffany M ^g   Pichancourt, Jean Baptiste ^b   Quested, Helen ^f   Wardle, Glenda M ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^f STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^g WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Comparative analysis; Demography; Fire; Herbivory; Matrix population models; MCMCglmm; Population dynamics; Population growth rate; Spatial and temporal variation; Temporal autocorrelation

Indexed keywords

AUTOCORRELATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FIRE; GROWTH RATE; HERBIVORY; MATRIX; PHYLOGENETICS; POPULATION GROWTH; POPULATION MODELING; SEEDLING; SPATIAL VARIATION; STOCHASTICITY; SURVIVAL; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLASSIFICATION; ECOSYSTEM; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PHYLOGENY; PLANT; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REVIEW; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STATISTICS;

ECOSYSTEM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHYLOGENY; PLANTS; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 77955977962     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2010.01506.x     Document Type: Review

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