Leslie matrix projection and culling model for feral fallow deer (Dama dama) in South Australia

Professor Corey J. A. Bradshaw
Global Ecology Laboratory
Flinders University
April 2025

Scripts

• fallow deer projection model.R: includes five separate models: (i) deterministic projection, (ii) stochastic projection, (iii) stochastic projection with generationally scaled catastrophic mortality function, (iv) stochastic projection with catastrophic mortality and density feedback, and (v) harvest (culling) model.
• matrixOperators.r: functions for matrix manipulation

R libraries used

deSolve, dplyr, ggplot2, ggpubr, patchwork, plotly, readr, tidyr, viridis