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-# EchidnaPopModel
-Leslie matrix projection model for the short-beaked echidna (Tachyglossus aculeatus)
+# Echidna population projection model
+
+
+Stochastic Leslie matrix population model for the short-beaked echidna (Tachyglossus aculeatus)
+
+Prof Corey J. A. Bradshaw
+Global Ecology, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia
+October 2021
+e-mail
+
+This echidna model was originally presented in the paper:
+
+BRADSHAW, CJA, CN JOHNSON, J LLEWELYN, V WEISBECKER, G STRONA, F SALTRÉ. 2021. Relative demographic susceptibility does not explain the extinction chronology of Sahul’s megafauna. eLife 10: e63870. doi:10.7554/eLife.63870
+
+(see also the above paper's Github repository)
+
+## R code
+EchidnaPopModel.R
+
+## Source file
+matrixOperators.r