Description

An R package with tools to derive life history traits from matrix population models.

Author(s)

Roberto Salguero-Gomez <rob.salguero@zoo.ox.ac.uk>

Owen R. Jones <jones@biology.sdu.dk>

References

Caswell, H. 2001. Matrix Population Models: Construction, Analysis, and Interpretation. Sinauer Associates; 2nd edition. ISBN: 978-0878930968

Caswell, H. 2006. Applications of Markov chains in demography. pp. 319-334 in A.N. Langville and W.J. Stewart (editors) MAM2006: Markov Anniversary Meeting. Boson Books, Raleigh, North Caroline, USA.

Cochran, M. E. & Ellner, S. 1992. Simple methods for calculating age-based life history parameters for stage-structured populations. Ecological Monographs, 62, 345- 364. <doi:10.2307/2937115>

Horvitz, C. & Tuljapurkar, S. 2008. Stage dynamics, period survival, and mortality plateaus. The American Naturalist 172: 203-2015. <doi:10.1086/589453>

Jones, O. R., Scheuerlein, A., Salguero-Gomez, R., Camarda, C. G., Schaible, R., Casper, B. B., Dahlgren, J. P., Ehrlén, J., García, M. B., Menges, E., Quintana-Ascencio, P. F., Caswell, H., Baudisch, A. & Vaupel, J. 2014. Diversity of ageing across the tree of life. Nature 505, 169-173. <doi:10.1038/nature12789>

Salguero-Gomez, R., Jones, O. R., Archer, C. R., Buckley, Y. M., Che-Castaldo, J., Caswell, H., Hodgson, D., Scheuerlein, A., Conde, D. A., Brinks, E., de Buhr, H., Farack, C., Gottschalk, F., Hartmann, A., Henning, A., Hoppe, G., Roemer, G., Runge, J., Ruoff, T., Wille, J., Zeh, S., Davison, R., Vieregg, D., Baudisch, A., Altwegg, R., Colchero, F., Dong, M., de Kroon, H., Lebreton, J.-D., Metcalf, C. J. E., Neel, M. M., Parker, I. M., Takada, T., Valverde, T., Velez-Espino, L. A., Wardle, G. M., Franco, M., Vaupel, J. W. 2015. The COMPADRE Plant Matrix Database: an open online repository for plant demography. Journal of Ecology, 103: 202-218. <doi:10.1111/1365-2745.12334>

Salguero-Gomez, R., Jones, O. R., Archer, C. R., Bein, C., de Buhr, H., Farack, C., Gottschalk, F., Hartmann, A., Henning, A., Hoppe, G., Roemer, G., Ruoff, T., Sommer, V., Wille, J., Voigt, J., Zeh, S., Vieregg, D., Buckley, Y. M., Che-Castaldo, J., Hodgson, D., Scheuerlein, A., Caswell, H., Vaupel, J. W. 2016. COMADRE: a global data base of animal demography. Journal of Animal Ecology, 85: 371-384. <doi:10.1111/1365-2656.12482>