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From: ahouse@BINAH.CC.BRANDEIS.EDU (Jeremy Ahouse)
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Subject: Re: population dynamics modeling-HELP with MATLAB
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Date: 24 Mar 91 16:31:47 GMT
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In article <11131.27e75c9b@zeus.unomaha.edu>, remer@zeus.unomaha.edu writes:
>I'm working with the MATLAB program on macintosh to itterate transition
>matricies for plant populations (american ginseng)  right now our system

...

>my m-files i'd surely appreciate it.  Or if you have any suggestions as to what
>other programs work well with populations synamics modeling.


I haven't done much matrix modeling with poulations lately, but...  Both
Theorist and Mathematica handle matrices well.  Also there is a wonderful
program/simulation environment called Extend by Imagine That Inc. I started a
model in that environment to look at the population dynamics of Chamise
(Adenostoma fasciculatum).  This is a block oriented simulation environment. 
It allows stuff (including matrices/vectors) to flow from one block to another. 
This may be a better environment once you know what the transition matrices are
and you want to see what they will do to various initial populations.

-- Jeremy
-- Biophysics Brandeis University