The Relative 'Importance' of Life-History Stages to Population Growth: Prospective and Retrospective Analyses

We describe five analyses, two prospective and three retrospective, that address the question of how the vital rates affect population growth rate. Then we apply them to data on the Neotropical understory herb Calathea ovandensis. Comparison of the results sheds light on various aspects of the '...

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Main Authors Horvitz, Carol, Schemske, Douglas W, Caswell, Hal
Format Publication
LanguageEnglish
Published 12.11.1997
Subjects
AGE STRUCTURE
CALATHEA OVANDENSIS
DEMOGRAPHY
ECOLOGY
ENVIRONMENTS
GROWTH(GENERAL)
MATRICES(MATHEMATICS)
NUMERICAL MATHEMATICS
PERTURBATIONS
POPULATION
POPULATION DYNAMICS
RATES
SIZE STRUCTURE
SOCIOLOGY AND LAW
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Summary:We describe five analyses, two prospective and three retrospective, that address the question of how the vital rates affect population growth rate. Then we apply them to data on the Neotropical understory herb Calathea ovandensis. Comparison of the results sheds light on various aspects of the 'importance' of the vital rates in this particularly well studied case.
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