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Separating intrinsic and environmental contributions to growth and their population consequences.
The American naturalist - 1 Jun 2013
Shelton Andrew O, Satterthwaite William H, Beakes Michael P, Munch Stephan B, Sogard Susan M, Mangel Marc
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Among-individual heterogeneity in growth is a commonly observed phenomenon that has clear consequences for population and community dynamics yet has proved difficult to quantify in practice. In particular, observed among-individual variation in growth can be difficult to link to any given mechanism. Here, we develop a Bayesian state-space framework for modeling growth that bridges the complexity of bioenergetic...
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