14789 IUPAC Gold Book - Leslie matrix 10.1351/goldbook.14789 14789 current 1 Square matrix used in population biology to predict population growth. The top row of the matrix is the fecundity for each age class of mothers, and a subdiagonal is constructed from the number of individuals surviving from age class \(x\) to \(x + 1\). Multiplied by the population vector of the number of female offspring in each age class \(x\) at time \(t\), it predicts the age distribution of the population at the next time step \(t + 1\), corresponding to the age class interval \(x + 1\). population https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/14932 PAC, 2009, 81, 829. 'Glossary of terms used in ecotoxicology (IUPAC Recommendations 2009)' on page 903 (https://doi.org/10.1351/PAC-REC-08-07-09) https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/14789/html https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/14789/json https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/14789/plain Citation: 'Leslie matrix' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 5th ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2025. Online version 5.0.0, 2025. 10.1351/goldbook.14789 The IUPAC Gold Book is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) for individual terms. If you are interested in licensing the Gold Book for commercial use, please contact the IUPAC Executive Director at executivedirector@iupac.org . The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) is continuously reviewing and, where needed, updating terms in the Compendium of Chemical Terminology (the IUPAC Gold Book). Users of these terms are encouraged to include the version of a term with its use and to check regularly for updates to term definitions that you are using. 2026-08-02T12:03:50+00:00