Life history strategies, which combine schedules of survival, development, and reproduction,
shape how natural selection acts on species' heritable traits and organismal fitness …

Chance pervades life. In turn, life histories are described by probabilities (eg survival and
breeding) and averages across individuals (eg mean growth rate and age at maturity). In this …

Natural systems exhibit high spatial variability across multiple scales. Models that can
capture ecosystem dynamics across space and time by explicitly incorporating major …

Despite exponential growth in ecological data availability, broader interoperability amongst
datasets is needed to unlock the potential of open access. Our understanding of the …

Stage‐based demographic methods, such as matrix population models (MPMs), are
powerful tools used to address a broad range of fundamental questions in ecology …

In recent years, demographers have parsed variation in survivorship into two distinct
components: the shape and the pace of ageing. The pace of ageing is defined by measures …

Cacti are threatened mainly by loss of habitat and illegal commerce. Because of this, it is
essential to know their demographic characteristics. We systematically reviewed the …

Understanding mechanisms and predicting natural population responses to climate is a key
goal of Ecology. However, studies explicitly linking climate to population dynamics remain …

Multi‐year and multi‐site demographic data for rare plants allow researchers to observe
threats and project population growth rates and thus long‐term persistence of the species …

Ecology has been surprisingly slow to address the uncertainty and bias that results from
using short-term time series to draw long-term inference. To improve our understanding of …