This repository contains example R code to support the manuscript "The implications of seasonal climatic effects for managing disturbance dependent populations under a changing climate", submitted to Journal of Ecology.
E. cuneifolium data and observed climatic data were provided by the Archbold Biological Station (https://archbold-station.org/html/datapub/data/dataovr.html). For more information on this dataset see:
Menges, E. S. and Quintana-Ascencio, P. F. (2004) 'Population viability with fire in Eryngium cuneifolium: Deciphering a decade of demographic data', Ecological Monographs, 74(1), pp. 79-99.
The forecasted climatic data were provided by the Program for Risk Information on Climate Change (SOUSEI) of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) of Japan carried out by the Meteorological Research Institute (MRI) of the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA). The authors are grateful to R.Mizuta, A.Kitoh and M.Hosaka for providing these data. For more information on the forecasted climate data see:
Kusunoki, S. and Mizuta, R. (2013) 'Changes in precipitation intensity over East Asia during the 20th and 21st centuries simulated by a global atmospheric model with a 60 km grid size', Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, 118(19), pp. 11007-11016.
Mizuta, R., Yoshimura, H., Murakami, H., Matsueda, M., Endo, H., Ose, T., Kamiguchi, K., Hosaka, M., Sugi, M., Yukimoto, S., Kusunoki, S. and Kitoh, A. (2012) 'Climate Simulations Using MRI-AGCM3.2 with 20-km Grid', Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan, 90A, pp. 233-258.