Matlab scripts
Generate spatially autocorrelated noise
- (opens in a new window)Generate spatial Brownian noise
- (opens in a new window)Generate spatial AR1 noise
Transient sensitivity of matrix population models
Yearsley (2004) "Transient population dynamics and short-term sensitivity analysis of matrix population models", Ecological Modelling, Vol. 177, p245-258(opens in a new window)[link to paper]
- cactus.m: Example from the paper (Short-term sensitivity of cactus population)
- near_term.m: Calculate short-term sensitivitites
- S.m: First term of decomposition, (independent of initial conditions)
- delta_S.m: Second term of decomposition
Mertens, Yearsley, van den Bosch and Gilligan (2006) "Transient population dynamics in periodic matrix models: methodology and effects of cyclic permutations", Ecology, Vol. 87, p2338-2348(opens in a new window)[link to paper]
- periodicExample.m: Example from the paper
- periodicSense.m: Short-term sensitivity of periodic matrix model
Cellular automaton model of peat smouldering combustion
Belcher, Yearsley, Hadden, McElwain, Rein (2010) "Baseline intrinsic flammability of Earth’s ecosystems estimated from paleoatmospheric oxygen over the past 350 million years", Vol. 107, p22448-22453(opens in a new window)[link to paper]
(opens in a new window)fireox.m: Cellular automaton model