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Appendix 1. Elasticity matrices of two northern (Eardley Escarpment, Gatineau Park, Québec) and two southern populations (Pinery Park, Ontario) of Helianthus divaricatus, for the 1992-93 and 1993-94 transition intervals.

Size-class (state) Size-class (state)

FATE

Northern-1 1992-93 1993-94

1	0.010	0.006	0.002	0.003	0.026	0.026	0.003	0.000
2	0.011	0.071	0.034	0.014	0.029	0.209	0.080	0.011
3	0.000	0.049	0.363	0.105	0.000	0.056	0.407	0.059
4	0.000	0.005	0.117	0.211	0.000	0.038	0.032	0.025
TOTAL	0.021	0.130	0.517	0.333	0.055	0.328	0.522	0.095

Northern-2 1992-93 1993-94

1	0.041	0.015	0.005	0.002	0.013	0.015	0.001	0.000
2	0.022	0.130	0.038	0.014	0.012	0.111	0.066	0.003
3	0.000	0.059	0.480	0.059	0.004	0.066	0.542	0.055
4	0.000	0.000	0.075	0.060	0.000	0.000	0.058	0.056
TOTAL	0.062	0.204	0.599	0.135	0.028	0.191	0.667	0.114

Southern-1 1992-93 1993-94

1	0.005	0.009	0.005	0.000	0.002	0.001	0.003	0.000
2	0.014	0.151	0.100	0.024	0.004	0.075	0.087	0.004
3	0.000	0.129	0.475	0.026	0.000	0.090	0.618	0.047
4	0.000	0.000	0.050	0.013	0.000	0.004	0.047	0.020
TOTAL	0.019	0.288	0.630	0.063	0.006	0.170	0.754	0.071

Southern-2 1992-93 1993-94

1	0.007	0.019	0.000	0.000	0.043	0.033	0.007	0.000
2	0.016	0.107	0.163	0.003	0.041	0.229	0.149	0.008
3	0.003	0.163	0.426	0.043	0.000	0.152	0.281	0.022
4	0.000	0.000	0.046	0.004	0.000	0.012	0.018	0.006
TOTAL	0.019	0.288	0.630	0.063	0.083	0.426	0.454	0.036

Appendix 2. Elasticity matrices of two northern (Eardley Escarpment, Gatineau Park, Québec) and two southern (Pinery Park, Ontario) populations of Rhus aromatica for the 1992-93 and 1993-94 transition intervals.