stoch.sens {popbio}

Stochastic growth rate sensitivity

Description

Calculates the sensitivity of the stochastic growth rate to perturbations in the mean demographic projection matrix

Usage

stoch.sens(A, tlimit = 100)

Arguments

A

a list of matrices

tlimit

time limit, default 100

Details

Function copied from demogR package after it was removed from CRAN. See section 14.4.1 in Caswell 2001.

Value

A list with two elements:

sensitivities

sensitivities of the stochastic growth rate

elasticities

elasticities of the stochastic growth rate

Author(s)

James Holland Jones

References

Caswell, H. 2001. Matrix population models: construction, analysis, and interpretation, Second edition. Sinauer, Sunderland, Massachusetts, USA.

Haridas, C. V., and S. Tuljapurkar. 2005. Elasticities in variable environments: Properties and implications. American Naturalist 166 (4):481-495.

Tuljapurkar, S. 1990. Population dynamics in variable environments. Vol. 85, Lecture notes in biomathematics. Berlin: Springer-Veralg.

Tuljapurkar, S., and C. V. Haridas. 2006. Temporal autocorrelation and stochastic population growth. Ecology Letters 9 (3):324-334.

See Also

eigen.analysis

Examples

stoch.sens(hudsonia)