When should plant population models include age structure?

Journal of Ecology

Volumn 102, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 531-543

  Chu, Chengjin ^a   Adler, Peter B ^a  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Competition; Demography; Individual heterogeneity; Integral projection model; Plant population and community dynamics; Structured population modelling; Survivorship curves

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894277686     PISSN: 00220477     EISSN: 13652745     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2745.12212     Document Type: Article

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