Snapshot of the Pack: Integral Projection Models pack

Description

This pack contains a workflow, a file and documentation (tutorial to run the workflow).

The Integral Projection Model (IPM) Workflow provides an environment for create an integral projection model and to calculate its population growth, structure, sensitivities and elasticities analyses, age-specific metrics, etc.

Create an IPM with no density dependence and perform several analyses on it.

Analyses:

• Lambda (λ).
• Sensitivity analysis.
• Elasticity analysis.
• Parameters elasticity and sensitivity of Lambda
• Parameters elasticity and sensitivity of Ro
• Parameters elasticity and sensitivity of Life Expectancy
• Survivorship
• Mean Life expectancy
• Passage Time

This workflow has been created by the Biodiversity Virtual e-Laboratory (BioVeL  http://www.biovel.eu/ ) project. BioVeL is funded by the EU’s Seventh Framework Program, grant no. 283359. 

This workflow was created using and based on Packages IPMpack (Metcalf, et al., 2013), Matrix, MASS, nlme, mvtnorm, methods, MCMCglmm, truncnorm, lattice, graphics, grDevices in R.

1. Metcalf, C.J.E., S.M. McMahon, R. Salguero-Gomez, E. Jongejans, and C. Merow. 2013. IPMpack: an R package for demographic modeling with Integral Projection Models (v. 2.0) May 19, 2013
2. Metcalf, C.J.E., S.M. McMahon, R. Salguero-Gomez, E. Jongejans, and C. Merow. 2012-7-4.  Package ‘IPMpack’, Builds and analyses Integral Projection Models (IPMs). July 26, 2013, Version 2.0.
3. Metcalf C.J.E., S.M. McMahon, R. Salguero-Gomez and E. Jongejans. 2013. IPMpack: an R package for Integral Projection Models. Meth Ecol Evol 4:195-200.
4. Salguero-Gómez R, Siewert W, Casper BB & Tielbörger K. 2012. A demographic approach to study effects of climate change in desert plants. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, series B 367, 3100-311.