Version 3.0 - nov 2000
The ULM computer program (Legendre & Clobert 1995; Ferrière et al. 1996) was designed to study population dynamics models, and, more generally, discrete dynamical systems.
Biologists, Ecologists, Mathematicians, either for research or teaching purposes in the following domains:
ULM is distributed free of charge. Users are under their own responsibility.
ULM directory should now contain:
The complete list of files contained in autoulm.exe may be found in readme.txt.
Models are described in a text file according to a reduced declaration language, close to the mathematical formulation. The program is run with the model file as input and the system can be studied interactively by means of simple commands producing convenient graphics and numerical results. The kernel of ULM is a symbolic evaluator. Stochastic models are handled via Monte Carlo simulation.
Caswell, H. 1989. Matrix Population Models. Sinauer Associates Inc., Sunderland, MA, USA.
Caswell, H. 2000. Matrix Population Models. Second edition.
Ferrière, R., F. Sarrazin, S. Legendre, and J.-P. Baron. 1996. Matrix population models applied to viability analysis and conservation: Theory and practice with ULM software. Acta OEcologica 17:629-656.
Legendre, S., and J. Clobert. 1995. ULM, a software for conservation and evolutionary biologists. Journal of Applied Statistics 22:817-834.
Tuljapurkar, S. 1990. Population Dynamics in Variable Environments. Lecture Notes in Biomathematics, Springer Verlag, Germany.
Laboratoire d'Ecologie, Ecole Normale Supérieure, 46 rue d'Ulm, 75230 Paris Cedex 05, France.
Tel: (33) 1 44 32 37 01 - Fax: (33) 1 44 32 38 85 - Email: firstname.lastname@example.org
Jean Clobert, Régis Ferrière, Frédéric Gosselin, Jean-Dominique Lebreton, François Sarrazin.