Pack: DEPRECATED - Matrix Population Models construction and analyses

This pack is deprecated. To obtain a more recent version of this pack, please refer to: http://www.myexperiment.org/packs/483.html

The Matrix Population Models Workflow provides an environment to create a stage-matrix with no density dependence and to perform several analyses on it:
- Eigen analysis;
- Age specific survival;
- Generation time (T);
- Net reproductive rate (Ro);
- Transient Dynamics;
- Bootstrap of observed census transitions (Confidence intervals of λ).

This workflow has been created by the Biodiversity Virtual e-Laboratory (BioVeL http://www.biovel.eu/) project. BioVeL is funded by the EU’s Seventh Framework Program, grant no. 283359.

This workflow was created using and based on Package ‘popbio’ in R. (Stubben & Milligan 2007; Stubben, Milligan & Nantel 2011).

Literature
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Caswell, H. 2001. Matrix population models: Construction, analysis and interpretation, 2nd Edition. Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, Massachusetts.

de Kroon, H. J., A. Plaiser, J. van Groenendael, and H. Caswell. 1986. Elasticity: The relative contribution of demographic parameters to population growth rate. Ecology 67: 1427-1431.

Horvitz, C., D.W. Schemske, and Hal Caswell. 1997. The relative "importance" of life-history stages to population growth: Prospective and retrospective analyses. In S. Tuljapurkar and H. Caswell. Structured population models in  terrestrial and freshwater systems. Chapman and Hall, New York.

Jongejans E. & H. de Kroon. 2012. Matrix models. Chapter in Encyclopaedia of Theoretical Ecology (eds. Hastings A & Gross L) University of California, p415-423

Mesterton-Gibbons, M. 1993. Why demographic elasticities sum to one: A postscript to de Kroon et al. Ecology 74: 2467-2468.

Oostermeijer J.G.B., M.L. Brugman; E.R. de Boer; H.C.M. Den Nijs. 1996. Temporal and Spatial Variation in the Demography of Gentiana pneumonanthe, a Rare Perennial Herb. The Journal of Ecology, Vol. 84(2): 153-166.

Stott, I., S. Townley and D.J. Hodgson 2011. A framework for studying transient dynamics of population projection matrix models. Ecology Letters 14: 959–970

Stubben, C & B. Milligan. 2007. Estimating and Analysing Demographic Models Using the popbio Package in R. Journal of Statistical Software 22 (11): 1-23

Stubben, C., B. Milligan, P. Nantel. 2011. Package ‘popbio’. Construction and analysis of matrix population models. Version 2.3.1

van Groenendael, J., H. de Kroon, S. Kalisz, and S. Tuljapurkar. 1994. Loop analysis: Evaluating life history pathways in population projection matrices. Ecology 75: 2410-2415.