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 …

Life-history theory is concerned with strategic decisions over an organism's lifetime.
Evidence is accumulating about the way in which these decisions depend on the organism's …

Modern computer-intensive statistical methods play a key role in solving many problems
across a wide range of scientific disciplines. This new edition of the bestselling …

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 …

A simulation method was developed for identifying populations with levels of human‐caused
mortality that could lead to depletion, taking into account the uncertainty of available …

It is a collection of short yet detailed scientific reviews which were all subject to peer review.
The conference was designed to bring together a wide range of biologists to compare and …

Population ecology has matured to a sophisticated science with astonishing potential for
contributing solutions to wildlife conservation and management challenges. And yet, much …

Elasticity analysis is a useful tool in conservation biology. The relative impacts of
proportional changes in fertility, juvenile survival, and adult survival on asymptotic …

Variability in population growth rate is thought to have negative consequences for organism
fitness. Theory for matrix population models predicts that variance in population growth rate …