[LIVRE][B] Sensitivity analysis: matrix methods in demography and ecology

H Caswell - 2019 - library.oapen.org
This open access book shows how to use sensitivity analysis in demography. It presents
new methods for individuals, cohorts, and populations, with applications to humans, other …

Ontogenetic niche shifts as a driver of seasonal migration

W Fokkema, HP van der Jeugd, TK Lameris, AM Dokter… - Oecologia, 2020 - Springer
Ontogenetic niche shifts have helped to understand population dynamics. Here we show
that ontogenetic niche shifts also offer an explanation, complementary to traditional …

[HTML][HTML] Persistent problems in the construction of matrix population models

BE Kendall, M Fujiwara, J Diaz-Lopez, S Schneider… - Ecological …, 2019 - Elsevier
Matrix population models (MPMs) are powerful tools for translating demographic and life
history information into a form that can be used to address a wide range of research topics …

Climate change and functional traits affect population dynamics of a long‐lived seabird

S Jenouvrier, M Desprez, R Fay… - Journal of Animal …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Recent studies unravelled the effect of climate changes on populations through their impact
on functional traits and demographic rates in terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems, but such …

Rcompadre and Rage—Two R packages to facilitate the use of the COMPADRE and COMADRE databases and calculation of life‐history traits from matrix …

OR Jones, P Barks, I Stott, TD James… - Methods in Ecology …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Matrix population models (MPMs) are an important tool for biologists seeking to understand
the causes and consequences of variation in vital rates (eg survival, reproduction) across life …

A dynamically structured matrix population model for insect life histories observed under variable environmental conditions

K Erguler, J Mendel, DV Petrić, M Petrić, M Kavran… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Various environmental drivers influence life processes of insect vectors that transmit human
disease. Life histories observed under experimental conditions can reveal such complex …

Skewed distributions of lifetime reproductive success: beyond mean and variance

S Tuljapurkar, W Zuo, T Coulson, C Horvitz… - Ecology …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Lifetime reproductive performance is quantified here by the LRS (lifetime reproductive
success), the random number of offspring an individual produces over its lifetime. Many field …

The formal demography of kinship

H Caswell - Demographic Research, 2019 - JSTOR
BACKGROUND Any individual is surrounded by a network of kin that develops over her
lifetime. In a justly famous paper, Goodman, Keyfitz, and Pullum (1974) presented formal …

Integrating eco‐evolutionary dynamics into matrix population models for structured populations: Discrete and continuous frameworks

A Bukkuri, JS Brown - Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
State‐structured populations are ubiquitous in biology, from the age‐structure of animal
societies to the life cycles of parasitic species. Understanding how this structure contributes …

The formal demography of kinship IV

H Caswell - Demographic Research, 2022 - JSTOR
BACKGROUND Previous kinship models analyze female kin through female lines of
descent, neglecting male kin and male lines of descent. Because males and females differ in …