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- Title
Stage-classified matrix models and age estimates.
- Authors
Barot, Sébastien; Gignoux, Jacques; Legendre, Stéphane
- Abstract
For animals such as birds or mammals, survival and fecundity are usually said to depend mostly on age, where as size is more relevant in the study of plant dynamics. Plants are modular organisms, and are generally much more plastic in their growth than animals. Consequently, the relation between age and size is obscure in plants. For example, some saplings may remain alive during many years without growing, because of a poor access to light. But when a neighbor adult tree dies, more light reaches the saplings, and they may start to grow again. In this way, plasticity is often critical for plants also they do not move but plasticity enables them to react to environmental variations.
- Subjects
MAMMALS; FERTILITY; SURVIVAL behavior (Animals); PHYSIOLOGICAL adaptation; REPRODUCTION; AGE
- Publication
Oikos, 2002, Vol 96, Issue 1, p56
- ISSN
0030-1299
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1034/j.1600-0706.2002.960106.x