Demographic processes limit upward altitudinal range expansion in a threatened tropical palm
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DOI: 10.1002/ece3.4686
Abstract: Abstract Understanding the factors that determine species’ range limits is a key issue in ecology, and is fundamental for biodiversity conservation under widespread global environmental change. Elucidating how altitudinal variation affects demographic processes may provide… read more here.
Keywords: palm; range; vital rates; altitudinal range ... See more keywords
Building integral projection models with nonindependent vital rates
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DOI: 10.1002/ece3.8682
Abstract: Abstract Population dynamics are functions of several demographic processes including survival, reproduction, somatic growth, and maturation. The rates or probabilities for these processes can vary by time, by location, and by individual. These processes can… read more here.
Keywords: projection models; integral projection; population; vital rates ... See more keywords
Variation in the vital rates of an Antarctic marine predator: the role of individual heterogeneity.
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DOI: 10.1002/ecy.2481
Abstract: Variation in life-history traits such as lifespan and lifetime reproductive output is thought to arise, in part, due to among-individual differences in the underlying probabilities of survival and reproduction. However, the stochastic nature of demographic… read more here.
Keywords: variation; reproduction; vital rates; variation vital ... See more keywords
A framework for estimating the determinants of spatial and temporal variation in vital rates and inferring the occurrence of unobserved extreme events
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DOI: 10.1098/rsos.171087
Abstract: We develop a general framework that combines long-term tag–recapture data and powerful statistical and modelling techniques to investigate how population, environmental and climate factors determine variation in vital rates and population dynamics in an animal… read more here.
Keywords: population densities; vital rates; variation vital; extreme events ... See more keywords
Applicability and limitations of sensitivity analyses for wildlife management
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DOI: 10.1111/1365-2664.13044
Abstract: Sensitivity analyses that assess the impact of changing vital rates on population growth have been widely used to guide conservation. If implemented with caution, they can provide guidance as to which management actions will optimize… read more here.
Keywords: wildlife management; vital rates; sensitivity; management ... See more keywords
Distinct responses of niche and fitness differences to water availability underlie variable coexistence outcomes in semi‐arid annual plant communities
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DOI: 10.1111/1365-2745.13056
Abstract: Climate change is predicted to have profound consequences for multispecies coexistence, and thus, patterns of biological diversity. These consequences will be mediated by direct and indirect impacts of environmental change on species’ vital rates and… read more here.
Keywords: semi arid; vital rates; environmental change; annual plant ... See more keywords
Impacts of tropical forest disturbance on species vital rates
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DOI: 10.1111/cobi.13182
Abstract: Tropical forests are experiencing enormous threats from deforestation and habitat degradation. Much knowledge of the impacts of these land‐use changes on tropical species comes from studies examining patterns of richness and abundance. Demographic vital rates… read more here.
Keywords: demography; tropical forest; land use; vital rates ... See more keywords
Cumulative weather effects can impact across the whole life cycle
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DOI: 10.1111/gcb.14742
Abstract: Abstract Predicting how species will be affected by future climatic change requires the underlying environmental drivers to be identified. As vital rates vary over the lifecycle, structured population models derived from statistical environment–demography relationships are… read more here.
Keywords: variation; environmental drivers; vital rates; weather effects ... See more keywords
Delayed effects of climate on vital rates lead to demographic divergence in Amazonian forest fragments.
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DOI: 10.1111/gcb.15900
Abstract: Deforestation often results in landscapes where remaining forest habitat is highly fragmented, with remnants of different sizes embedded in an often highly contrasting matrix. Local extinction of species from individual fragments is common, but the… read more here.
Keywords: forest fragments; climate vital; vital rates; effects climate ... See more keywords
Accounting for uncertainty in dormant life stages in stochastic demographic models
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DOI: 10.1111/oik.03696
Abstract: Dormant life stages are often critical for population viability in stochastic environments, but accurate field data characterizing them are difficult to collect. Such limitations may translate into uncertainties in demographic parameters describing these stages, which… read more here.
Keywords: seed; uncertainty; vital rates; life stages ... See more keywords
Linking wood traits to vital rates in tropical rainforest trees: Insights from comparing sapling and adult wood.
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DOI: 10.3732/ajb.1700242
Abstract: PREMISE OF THE STUDY Wood density is the top predictor of growth and mortality rates (vital rates) but with modest explanatory power at best. Stronger links to vital rates are expected if wood density is… read more here.
Keywords: wood; adult; vital rates; traits vital ... See more keywords