Popdemo: An R package for population demography using projection matrix analysis

Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 797-802

  Stott, Iain ^a   Hodgson, David J ^a   Townley, Stuart ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Demography; Matrix; Perturbation analysis; Popdemo; Population management; R; Sensitivity; Transfer function; Transient dynamics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875277947     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2041210X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.2041-210X.2012.00222.x     Document Type: Article

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