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Historical and Ahistorical Population Projection Matrix Analysis

Description

This package creates population matrix projection models (MPMs) for use in population ecological analyses. It presents a complete working environment for the construction and analysis of ALL kinds of MPMs and IPMs, including age, stage, and age-by-stage versions. Its specialty is the estimation of historical MPMs, which are 2d matrices comprising 3 monitoring occasions (2 time steps or periods) of demographic information. The package constructs both function-based and raw MPMs for both standard ahistorical (i.e. 2 occasions, 1 time step) and historical analyses, has functions for complex density-dependent and independent, and stochastic and cyclical, projections, and also includes the automatic calculation of quality control metrics throughout every step of analysis. It also includes powerful functions to standardize demographic datasets.

Details

The lefko3 package provides seven categories of functions:

1. Data transformation and handling functions

2. Functions determining population characteristics from vertical data

3. Model building and selection

4. Matrix / integral projection model creation functions

5. Population dynamics analysis and projection functions

6. Functions describing, summarizing, or visualizing MPMs and derived structures

7. Extra functions used to illustrate core theory and ideas.

lefko3 also includes example datasets complete with sample code.

Author(s)

Richard P. Shefferson <[e-mail]>

Johan Ehrlén

References

Shefferson, R.P., J. Ehrlen, and S. Kurokawa. 2021. lefko3: analyzing individual history through size-classified matrix population models. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 12(2): 378-382.

lefko3 documentation built on Oct. 14, 2023, 1:07 a.m.