Background and Aims Global environmental change will affect non-native plant invasions,
with profound potential impacts on native plant populations, communities and ecosystems …

We argue that population growth rate is the key unifying variable linking the various facets of
population ecology. The importance of population growth rate lies partly in its central role in …

People depend on benefits provided by ecological systems. Understanding how these
ecosystem services–and the ecosystem properties underpinning them–respond to drivers of …

A central goal in ecology is to predict population dynamics from demographic information.
Based on the asymptotic population growth rate λ, calculated from a projection matrix model …

When the second edition of this book was nearly exhausted, and orders were grinding to a
halt, Springer urged me to do a third edition. At the age of 90 I said that was out of the …

Over the past 30 years, one of the most rapidly expanding areas in ecology has been the
development of structured population models, where individuals have attributes such as …

The field of habitat ecology has been muddled by imprecise terminology regarding what
constitutes habitat, and how importance is measured through use, selection, avoidance and …

A sequence of changes in vital rates observed as populations approach maximal levels has
been used as the basis for a “paradigm” for population analysis. Previous work indicates that …

Forest conservation has become one of the most important environmental issues currently
facing humanity, as a result of widespread deforestation and forest degradation. Pressures …

Elasticity is a perturbation measure in matrix projection models that quantifies the
proportional change in population growth rate as a function of a proportional change in a …