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Article: Data on ecology published by researchers at Cornell University.
- Article from:
- Ecology, Environment & Conservation
- Article date:
- November 20, 2009
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According to recent research from the United States, "Most plant and animal populations have substantial interannual variability in survival, growth rate, and fecundity. They also exhibit substantial variability among individuals in traits such as size, age, condition, and disease status that have large impacts on individual fates and consequently on the future of the population."
"We present here methods for constructing and analyzing a stochastic integral projection model (IPM) incorporating both of these forms of variability, illustrated through a case study of the monocarpic thistle Carlina vulgaris. We show how model construction can exploit the close ...