Index 555
sensitivity
of eigenvalues, 305
in desert tortoise, 308
in teasel, 308
of age-classified models, 306
of size-classified models, 308, 312
predictions of λ from, 316
to development rate, 313
to lower-level parameters, 312
to matrix entries, 305
to zero entries, 310
of eigenvectors, 321
of expectation of life
to birth and death rates, 146
of mean age to rate of increase, 118
of rate of increase, 135, see
sensitivity of eigenvalues
to R
0
, 136
to birth rate, 137
to death rate, 140
to mean age of childbearing, 135
to variance in age of childbearing,
136
of stable age distribution, 219
sex preference, 430
Simpson’s paradox, 479
size-classified model, see standard
size-classified model
size-dependent vital rates, 66
stability
of stage distribution, 160
stable age distribution, 93, 161, 217
and dependency ratio, 223
and rate of increase, 218, 494
effect of births and deaths, 500
effect of mortality, 219
mean age, 103
proportion over 65, 498
sensitivity of, 324
stable equivalent, 200, 213, 279
and reproductive value, 202
and species introductions, 214
killer whale, 213
United States, 202
stable population structure, 161
stable stage distribution, 160
standard size-classified model, 70
state, 64
p-state, 64
i-state, 64
stationary population, 30, 94
stochastic matrix models, 292
stochasticity, see demographic
stochasticity, see environmental
stochasticity
strong ergodic theorem, 155
survivorship, 256
curvature of, 80
t’ai chi chuan, 252
teasel
elasticity of eigenvalues, 320
Markov chain decomposition of,
254
sensitivity of eigenvalues, 308
time to conception, 400
total differential of eigenvalue, 310
transient analysis, 55
transient dynamics, 165
two-sex models, 9
violent crime
probability of, 252
widowhood, 466