When should plant population models include age structure?

Life form influences survivorship patterns for 109 herbaceous perennials from six semi-arid ecosystems

(2013) Chengjin Chu et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Cover and density of semi-desert grassland plants in permanent quadrats mapped from 1915 to 1947

(2012) Jed Anderson et al.   ECOLOGY

Nonlinear relationships between vital rates and state variables in demographic models

(2011) Johan P. Dahlgren et al.   ECOLOGY

Fourteen years of mapped, permanent quadrats in a northern mixed prairie, USA

(2011) Jed Anderson et al.   ECOLOGY

Demographic heterogeneity, cohort selection, and population growth

(2011) Bruce E. Kendall et al.   ECOLOGY

Bayesian inference on age-specific survival for censored and truncated data

(2011) Fernando Colchero et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

No evidence of senescence in a 300-year-old mountain herb

(2011) Maria B. Garcia et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Forecasting plant community impacts of climate variability and change: when do competitive interactions matter?

(2011) Peter B. Adler et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Species–area relationships always overestimate extinction rates from habitat loss

(2011) Fangliang He et al.   NATURE

Demographic heterogeneity impacts density-dependent population dynamics

(2011) Joseph P. Stover et al.   Theoretical Ecology

Matrix models and sensitivity analysis of populations classified by age and stage: a vec-permutation matrix approach

(2011) Hal Caswell   Theoretical Ecology

Mapped quadrats in sagebrush steppe: long-term data for analyzing demographic rates and plant–plant interactions

(2010) Luke Zachmann et al.   ECOLOGY

Climate influences the demography of three dominant sagebrush steppe plants

(2010) Harmony J. Dalgleish et al.   ECOLOGY

How do plant ecologists use matrix population models?

(2010) Elizabeth E. Crone et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Using evolutionary demography to link life history theory, quantitative genetics and population ecology

(2010) Tim Coulson et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Integral Projection Models for trees: a new parameterization method and a validation of model output

(2010) Pieter A. Zuidema et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Matrix projection models meet variation in the real world

(2010) Roberto Salguero-Gómez et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Keeping plant shrinkage in the demographic loop

(2010) Roberto Salguero-Gómez et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Demographic compensation and tipping points in climate-induced range shifts

(2010) Daniel F. Doak et al.   NATURE

A time to grow and a time to die: a new way to analyze the dynamics of size, light, age, and death of tropical trees

(2009) C. Jessica E. Metcalf et al.   ECOLOGY

Demography of perennial grassland plants: survival, life expectancy and life span

(2008) William K. Lauenroth et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY