The biennial life strategy in a random environment

DOI10.1007/BF00277733zbMath0713.92028WikidataQ113909000 ScholiaQ113909000MaRDI QIDQ5895259

Jos B. T. M. Roerdink

Publication date: 1988

Published in: Journal of Mathematical Biology (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

extinction probabilitygamma distributiondiscrete-time population modelproducts of random matricesaverage growth rategrowth of biennial plantslong- run geometric growth rateoptimal values of the flowering fractionrandom number of offspring per flowering plantrandomly varying environmenttwo age classes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Ecology (92D40) Random matrices (algebraic aspects) (15B52)

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