Data from: The diversity of population responses to environmental change

  • Fernando Colchero (Creator)
  • Owen R. Jones (Creator)
  • Dalia Amor Conde Ovando (Creator)
  • Dave J Hodgson (Creator)
  • Felix Zajitschek (Creator)
  • Benedikt R Schmidt (Creator)
  • Aurelio F Malo (Creator)
  • Susan C Alberts (Creator)
  • Peter H Becker (Creator)
  • Sandra Bouwhuis (Creator)
  • Anne M Bronikowski (Creator)
  • Kristel M De Vleeschouwer (Creator)
  • Richard J Delahay (Creator)
  • Stefan Dummermuth (Creator)
  • Eduardo Fernandez-Duque (Creator)
  • John Frisenvaenge (Creator)
  • Martin Hesselsøe (Creator)
  • Sam Larson (Creator)
  • Jean François Lemaitre (Creator)
  • Jennifer McDonald (Creator)
  • David A W Miller (Creator)
  • Colin O'Donnell (Creator)
  • Craig Packer (Creator)
  • Becky E Raboy (Creator)
  • Christopher J. Reading (Creator)
  • Erik Wapstra (Creator)
  • Henri Weimerskirch (Creator)
  • Geoffrey M While (Creator)
  • Annette Baudisch (Creator)
  • Thomas Flatt (Creator)
  • Tim Coulson (Creator)
  • Jean-Michel Gaillard (Creator)
  • Kristel M De Vleeschouwer (Creator)
  • David Hodgson (Creator)
  • Chris J Reading (Creator)

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Description

The current extinction and climate change crises pressure us to predict population dynamics with ever-greater accuracy. Although predictions rest on the well-advanced theory of age-structured populations, two key issues remain poorly-explored. Specifically, how the age-dependency in demographic rates and the year-to-year interactions between survival and fecundity affect stochastic population growth rates. We use inference, simulations, and mathematical derivations to explore how environmental perturbations determine population growth rates for populations with different age-specific demographic rates and when ages are reduced to stages. We find that stage- vs. age-based models can produce markedly divergent stochastic population growth rates. The differences are most pronounced when there are survival-fecundity-trade-offs, which reduce the variance in the population growth rate. Finally, the expected value and variance of the stochastic growth rates of populations with different age-specific demographic rates can diverge to the extent that, while some populations may thrive, others will inevitably go extinct.
Date made available3. Jan 2019
PublisherDryad Digital Repository
Geographical coverageGlobal
  • The diversity of population responses to environmental change

    Colchero, F., Jones, O. R., Conde, D. A., Hodgson, D., Zajitschek, F., Schmidt, B. R., Malo, A. F., Alberts, S. C., Becker, P. H., Bouwhuis, S., Bronikowski, A. M., De Vleeschouwer, K. M., Delahay, R. J., Dummermuth, S., Fernández-Duque, E., Frisenvaenge, J., Hesselsøe, M., Larson, S., Lemaître, J.-F. & McDonald, J. & 12 others, Miller, D. A. W., O'Donnell, C., Packer, C., Raboy, B. E., Reading, C. J., Wapstra, E., Weimerskirch, H., While, G. M., Baudisch, A., Flatt, T., Coulson, T. & Gaillard, J.-M., Feb 2019, In: Ecology Letters. 22, 2, p. 342-353

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