hockeyStick {ConnMatTools}

Hockey-stick settler-recruit relationship

Description

Calculates recruitment based on a settler-recruit relationship that increases linearly until it reaches a maximum values.

Usage

hockeyStick(S, slope = 1/0.35, Rmax = 1)

Arguments

S

a vector of settlement values, 1 for each site.

slope

slope at the origin of the settler-recruit relationship. Can be a vector of same length as S.

Rmax

maximum recruitment value.

Details

slope and Rmax can both either be scalars or vectors of the same length as S.

Value

A vector of recruitment values.

Author(s)

David M. Kaplan [e-mail]

References

Kaplan, D. M., Botsford, L. W., and Jorgensen, S. 2006. Dispersal per recruit: An efficient method for assessing sustainability in marine reserve networks. Ecological Applications, 16: 2248-2263.