The open‐data scientific philosophy is being widely adopted and proving to promote
considerable progress in ecology and evolution. Open‐data global data bases now exist on …

In (st) age-structured populations, the long-run population growth rate is negatively affected
by temporal variation in vital rates. In most cases, natural selection should minimize …

Ecologists seek general explanations for the dramatic variation in species abundances in
space and time. An increasingly popular solution is to predict species distributions …

A central goal in ecology is to predict population dynamics from demographic information.
Based on the asymptotic population growth rate λ, calculated from a projection matrix model …

When the second edition of this book was nearly exhausted, and orders were grinding to a
halt, Springer urged me to do a third edition. At the age of 90 I said that was out of the …

Biological invasions are increasingly commonplace, driven primarily by the accidental
human transport of exotic species via ship** or trade. The economic impacts can be …

We used life‐history theory to predict reaction norms for age and size at maturation. We
assumed that fecundity increases with size and that juvenile mortality rates of offspring …

The seashore has long been the subject of fascination and study-the Ancient Greek scholar
Aristotle made observations and wrote about Mediterranean sea urchins. The considerable …

To understand modern principles of sustainable management and the conservation of
wildlife species requires intimate knowledge about demography, animal behavior, and …

Matrix population models require the population to be divided into discrete stage classes. In
many cases, especially when classes are defined by a continuous variable, such as length …