% A=projection matrix for declining semipalmated sandpiper pop. % from Hitchcock and Gatto-Trevor, Ecology 78:522-534 (1997). % Pre-breeding census - classes are 1, 2, and 3+ year-olds. % The code below A calculates and displays the dominant eigenvalue % lambda1, the stable distribution w, the vector of reproductive % values v, a matrix of eigenvalue senstitivities S, and a matrix % of eigenvalue elasticities, E. A=[.02115 .074 .0846; .563 0 0; 0 .563 .563]; [lambdas,lambda1,W,w,V,v]=eigenall(A); lambda1 w v S=v*w'/(v'*w) E=A.*S/lambda1