Damman, H. and M.L. Cain (1998). Population growth and variability analysis of the clonal woodland herb, Asarum canadense. Journal of Ecology, 86, 293 - 304, Appendix Table 4

Transition matrices for Asarum canadense clones in late successional forest habitats. Bold-faced values have been estimated as described in the Methods. S=seedlings, Y=yearlings, 1-4+=number of ramets/clone.

		Plot A						Plot B
Transition		S	Y	1	2	3	4+	S	Y	1	2	3	4+
1990-1991	S	0.00	0.00	0.36	0.95	1.87	2.67	0.00	0.00	0.04	0.10	0.19	0.30
	Y	0.50	0	0	0	0	0	0.50	0	0	0	0	0
	1	0	0.67	0.73	0.07	0.20	0.25	0	0.67	0.57	0.58	0	0
	2	0	0	0.07	0.79	0.10	0	0	0	0.21	0.33	0	0
	3	0	0	0	0.07	0.40	0.25	0	0	0	0.08	0.25	0
	4+	0	0	0	0.07	0.30	0.50	0	0	0	0	0.75	1.00
1991-1992	S	0	0	1.56	0.57	2.99	2.99	0	0	0	0	0	0
	Y	0.50	0	0	0	0	0	0.50	0	0	0	0	0
	1	0	0.60	0.67	0.23	0.20	0	0	0.50	0.69	0.13	0	0
	2	0	0	0.08	0.77	0.40	0.40	0	0.50	0.19	0.13	0.33	0
	3	0	0	0	0	0.40	0.20	0	0	0	0.63	0	0.43
	4+	0	0	0	0	0	0.40	0	0	0	0.13	0.67	0.57
1992-1993	S	0	0	0	2.71	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	Y	0.50	0	0	0	0	0	0.50	0	0	0	0	0
	1	0	0.79	0.94	0.14	0	0	0	1.00	0.71	0.40	0	0
	2	0	0	0	0.79	0.25	0	0	0	0.21	0.20	0.13	0
	3	0	0	0	0.07	0.75	0.50	0	0	0	0.40	0.38	0.17
	4+	0	0	0	0	0	0.50	0	0	0	0	0.50	0.83
1993-1994	S	0	0	0.07	0.31	0.37	0	0	0	0.41	1.55	1.74	1.03
	Y	0.50	0	0	0	0	0	0.50	0	0	0	0	0
	1	0	0.46	0.75	0.08	0.20	0	0	0.46	0.67	0.33	0.25	0
	2	0	0	0	0.92	0.20	0	0	0	0.07	0.67	0.25	0.22
	3	0	0	0	0	0.60	1.00	0	0	0.07	0	0.13	0
	4+	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.38	0.78
1994-1995	S	0	0	0	0	4.00	0	0	0	0	0	0.05	0.23
	Y	0.50	0	0	0	0	0	0.50	0	0	0	0	0
	1	0	0.74	0.69	0	0.25	0	0	0.74	0.46	0.14	0	0
	2	0	0	0.05	0.92	0	0	0	0	0.11	0.29	0	0
	3	0	0	0	0.08	0.75	0	0	0	0	0.43	0.75	0
	4+	0	0	0	0	0	1.00	0	0	0	0.14	0.25	1.00

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