Publication Date:
2022-05-25
Description:
Author Posting. © Ecological Society of America, 2013. This article is posted here by permission of Ecological Society of America for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Ecological Applications 23 (2013): 1893-1905, doi:10.1890/12-1712.1.
Description:
The population effects of harvest depend on complex interactions between density dependence, seasonality, stage structure, and management timing. Here we present a periodic nonlinear matrix population model that incorporates seasonal density dependence with stage-selective and seasonally selective harvest. To this model, we apply newly developed perturbation analyses to determine how population densities respond to changes in harvest and demographic parameters. We use the model to examine the effects of popular control strategies and demographic perturbations on the invasive weed garlic mustard (Alliaria petiolata). We find that seasonality is a major factor in harvest outcomes, because population dynamics may depend significantly on both the season of management and the season of observation. Strategies that reduce densities in one season can drive increases in another, with strategies giving positive sensitivities of density in the target seasons leading to compensatory effects that invasive species managers should avoid. Conversely, demographic parameters to which density is very elastic (e.g., seeding survival, second-year rosette spring survival, and the flowering to fruiting adult transition for maximum summer densities) may indicate promising management targets.
Description:
This work was supported by the National Science
Foundation (grant DEB-0816514), the National Research
Initiative of the USDA Cooperative State Research, Education
and Extension Service (grant 05-2290), the Alexander
von Humboldt Foundation, and the Academic Programs
Office at WHOI.
Keywords:
Alliaria petiolata
;
Ceutorhynchus scrobicollis
;
Compensatory mortality
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Density dependence
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Garlic mustard
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Harvest
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Invasive species
;
Periodic matrix models
;
Perturbation analysis
;
Seasonality
Repository Name:
Woods Hole Open Access Server
Type:
Article
Format:
application/pdf
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