Title: Comparative Plant Demography--Relative Importance of Life-Cycle Components to the Finite Rate of Increase in Woody and Herbaceous Perennials
Abstract:Stage projection (Lefkovitch) matrices for 21 species of woody plants and 45 herbaceous perennials were extracted from the plant demographic literature or compiled from published data. Each matrix was...Stage projection (Lefkovitch) matrices for 21 species of woody plants and 45 herbaceous perennials were extracted from the plant demographic literature or compiled from published data. Each matrix was divided into six regions representing: recruitment of seeds to the seed pool; recruitment of seedlings or juveniles from current seed production; clonal growth; retrogression, due to plants decreasing in size or reverting in stage; stasis, (survival from one year to the next in the same stage class); progression to later stage classes. Matrix analysis was used to calculate the finite rate of increase λ for each population and to calculate the elasticities of each transition coefficient in the matrices (...)Read More
Publication Year: 1993
Publication Date: 1993-09-01
Language: en
Type: article
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