loggerhead: Loggerhead sea turtle stage-based life tables

Description Usage Format Source References

Description

Two stage-based life tables (differing in how adults are broken out) of the Little Cumberland Island loggerhead sea turtle population, set up to use as input to make_stage4age_matrix. Note that these tables do not exactly generate the stage-based matrices published in the sources. The matrix in Table 4 of Crouse et al. (1987) has inappropriate reproduction matrix elements for a postbreeding-census matrix, and has an apparent typo in the survival of adults. The matrix in Table 2 of Crowder et al. (1994) differs in the third decimal place of subadult reproduction, probably as a consequence of rounding the maturation fraction before multiplying by the adult maternity.

Usage

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Format

A list with two elements, each being a data frame with four named columns.

Source

loggerhead[[1]] is derived from Table 3 of Crouse et al. (1987), and loggerhead[[2]] is Table 1 of Crowder et al. (1994).

References

Crouse, D. T., L. B. Crowder, and H. Caswell. 1987. A stage-based population model for loggerhead sea turtles and implications for conservation. Ecology 68:1412-1423.

Crowder, L. B., D. T. Crouse, S. S. Heppell, and T. H. Martin. 1994. Predicting the impact of turtle excluder devices on loggerhead sea turtle populations. Ecological Applications 4:437-445.


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