Yearly variation in recruitment and its effect on population dynamics inYoldia notabilis (Mollusca: Bivalvia), analyzed using projection matrix model

1993 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 199-213 ◽  
Author(s):  
Masahiro Nakaoka
Keyword(s):  
Population Dynamics ◽  
Matrix Model ◽  
Projection Matrix ◽  
Yearly Variation ◽  
Projection Matrix Model

Population dynamics of black spruce and white spruce near the arctic tree line in the southern Brooks Range, Alaska

2005 ◽  
Vol 35 (9) ◽  
pp. 2073-2081 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea H Lloyd ◽  
Alexis E Wilson ◽  
Christopher L Fastie ◽  
R Matthew Landis
Keyword(s):  
Population Dynamics ◽  
Seed Production ◽  
Matrix Model ◽  
Black Spruce ◽  
White Spruce ◽  
Adult Mortality ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Tree Line ◽  
Northern Limit ◽  
Fire Intervals

Black spruce (Picea mariana (Mill.) BSP) is the dominant species in interior Alaska but it is largely absent from the arctic tree line. To evaluate the importance of climate and fire as controls over the species distribution, we reconstructed stand history at three sites near its northern limit in Alaska, where it grows with white spruce (Picea glauca (Moench) Voss). We developed a matrix model to explore black spruce population dynamics and response to varying fire intervals. All sites burned in the early 1900s. High recruitment of black spruce occurred for <30 years following the fire, but most current black spruce recruitment is clonal and seed viability is low. White spruce recruitment has been consistently high since the fire, and the majority of seedlings in the stands are white spruce. Despite low recruitment, the matrix model suggests that black spruce populations are nearly stable, largely because of low adult mortality rates. Although black spruce recruitment is stimulated by fire, the model indicates that fire intervals <350 years would destabilize the population, primarily because of slow growth and low seed production. Population dynamics of black spruce at its northern limit in Alaska thus appear to reflect an interaction between fire, which determines the temporal pattern of tree recruitment, and climate, which limits tree growth and, presumably, viable seed production.

Periodic, spatially structured matrix model for the study of anchovy (Engraulis encrasicolus) population dynamics in N Aegean Sea (E. Mediterranean)

2007 ◽  
Vol 208 (2-4) ◽  
pp. 367-377 ◽  
Author(s):  
Irene Mantzouni ◽  
Stylianos Somarakis ◽  
Dimitrios K. Moutopoulos ◽  
Argyris Kallianiotis ◽  
Constantin Koutsikopoulos
Keyword(s):  
Population Dynamics ◽  
Matrix Model ◽  
Aegean Sea ◽  
Engraulis Encrasicolus ◽  
Structured Matrix
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