Population Dynamics

Recent Papers

Spatial Scales of Population Synchrony in Predator-Prey Systems

Javier Jarillo, Bernt-Erik Sæther, Steinar Engen, and Francisco Javier Cao-García

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Feb-Jarillo.html

Decreased Precipitation Predictability Negatively Affects Population Growth through Differences in Adult Survival

Guillem Masó, Arpat Ozgul, and Patrick S. Fitze

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Jan-Maso.html

Variability in Dispersal Syndromes Is a Key Driver of Metapopulation Dynamics in Experimental Microcosms

Staffan Jacob, Alexis S. Chaine, Michèle Huet, Jean Clobert, and Delphine Legrand

Blurb: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Nov-Jacob.html

A Spatial Perspective on the Phenological Distribution of the Spring Woodland Caterpillar Peak

Jack D. Shutt, Malcolm D. Burgess, and Albert B. Phillimore

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Nov-Shutt.html

Soil Microbiomes Underlie Population Persistence of an Endangered Plant Species

Aaron S. David, Pedro F. Quintana-Ascencio, Eric S. Menges, Khum B. Thapa-Magar, Michelle E. Afkhami, and Christopher A. Searcy

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Oct-David.html

Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics in the Wild: Clonal Turnover and Stability in Daphnia Populations

Christopher F. Steiner and Carly J. Nowicki

Metabolic Theory and the Temperature-Size Rule Explain the Temperature Dependence of Population Carrying Capacity

Joey R. Bernhardt, Jennifer M. Sunday, and Mary I. O’Connor

Lay summary: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/DecBernhardt.html

Collapse, Tipping Points, and Spatial Demographic Structure Arising from the Adopted Migrant Life History
Luke A. Rogers, Anne K. Salomon, Brendan Connors, and Martin Krkošek
Lay summary: http://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/JulyRogers.html

Open Access

Coinfection Timing Drives Host Population Dynamics through Changes in Virulence

Katherine M. Marchetto and Alison G. Power

Predator Persistence through Variability of Resource Productivity in Tritrophic Systems

Floor H. Soudijn and André M. de Roos

Is Plant Fitness Proportional to Seed Set? An Experiment and a Spatial Model

Diane R. Campbell, Alison K. Brody, Mary V. Price, Nickolas M. Waser, and George Aldridge

Lay summary: http://amnat.org/an/newpapers/Dec17Campbell.html

Drivers of Diversification in Individual Life Courses

Raisa Hernández-Pacheco and Ulrich K. Steiner

Lay summary: http://amnat.org/an/newpapers/DecHernPach.html

Assessing the Influence of Temporal Autocorrelations on the Population Dynamics of a Disturbance Specialist Plant Population in a Random Environment

Eric Alan Eager, Diana Pilson, Helen M. Alexander, and Brigitte Tenhumberg

Lay summary: http://amnat.org/an/newpapers/OctEager.html

Note

Historical Biogeography and Extinction in the Hawaiian Honeycreepers

Robert E. Ricklefs

Lay summary: http://amnat.org/an/newpapers/OctRicklefs.html

Eco-Evolutionary Theory and Insect Outbreaks

David J. Páez, Vanja Dukic, Jonathan Dushoff, Arietta Fleming-Davies, and Greg Dwyer

Lay summary: http://amnat.org/an/newpapers/JunePaez.html

The Size Dependence of Phytoplankton Growth Rates: A Trade-Off between Nutrient Uptake and Metabolism

Ben A. Ward, Emilio Marañón, Boris Sauterey, Jonathan Rault, and David Claessen