Demographic synthesis for global tree species conservation

B Ohse, A Compagnoni, CE Farrior… - Trends in Ecology & …, 2023 - cell.com
Conserving the tree species of the world requires syntheses on which tree species are most
vulnerable to pressing threats, such as climate change, invasive pests and pathogens, or …

When and how can we predict adaptive responses to climate change?

MC Urban, J Swaegers, R Stoks, RR Snook… - Evolution …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Predicting if, when, and how populations can adapt to climate change constitutes one of the
greatest challenges in science today. Here, we build from contributions to the special issue …

Reviews and syntheses: Biological indicators of low-oxygen stress in marine water-breathing animals

MR Roman, AH Altieri, D Breitburg, EM Ferrer… - …, 2024 - bg.copernicus.org
Anthropogenic warming and nutrient over-enrichment of our oceans have resulted in
significant, and often catastrophic, reductions in dissolved oxygen (deoxygenation). Stress …

Demographic but not competitive time lags can transiently amplify climate‐induced changes in vegetation carbon storage

JM Levine, J HilleRisLambers, WK Petry… - Global Change …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
How terrestrial ecosystems will accumulate carbon as the climate continues to change is a
major source of uncertainty in projections of future climate. Under growth‐stimulating …

Applying stochastic and Bayesian integral projection modeling to amphibian population viability analysis

AF Messerman, AG Clause, LN Gray… - Ecological …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Integral projection models (IPMs) can estimate the population dynamics of species for which
both discrete life stages and continuous variables influence demographic rates. Stochastic …

High among‐species variability in the context dependence of herbivory across disturbance, weather and topoedaphic gradients

AO Sutton, Z Ratajczak, AM Louthan - Journal of Ecology, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Species interaction effects on populations can vary in both magnitude (ie strong vs. weak)
and sign (positive, negative, or no effect). Context‐dependent effects of species interactions …

The role of demographic compensation in stabilising marginal tree populations in North America

X Yang, AL Angert, PA Zuidema, F He, S Huang… - Ecology …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Demographic compensation—the opposing responses of vital rates along environmental
gradients—potentially delays anticipated species' range contraction under climate change …

Quantifying the demographic vulnerabilities of dry woodlands to climate and competition using rangewide monitoring data

RK Shriver, CB Yackulic, DM Bell, JB Bradford - Ecology, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Climate change is expected to alter the distribution and abundance of tree species,
impacting ecosystem structure and function. Yet, anticipating where this will occur is often …

Fluctuation-dependent coexistence of stage-structured species

CM Werner, LM Hallett… - The American …, 2025 - journals.uchicago.edu
Modern coexistence theory is a dominant framework for understanding how environmental
fluctuations promote species coexistence. However, assessing fluctuation-dependent …

Demographic consequences of mutualism disruption: Browsing and big‐headed ant invasion drive acacia population declines

BR Hays, C Riginos, TM Palmer, DF Doak, BC Gituku… - Ecology, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Across the globe, biological invasions have disrupted mutualisms, producing reverberating
consequences for ecosystems. Although invasive species frequently trigger mutualism …