Demography

Recent Papers

Investigating the Dynamics of Elk Population Size and Body Mass in a Seasonal Environment Using a Mechanistic Integral Projection Model

Shelly Lachish, Ellen E. Brandell, Meggan E. Craft, Andrew P. Dobson, Peter J. Hudson, Daniel R. MacNulty, and Tim Coulson

Parental Age Effects and the Evolution of Senescence

Patrick M. Barks and Robert A. Laird

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/May-Barks.html

Deconstructing Evolutionary Game Theory: Coevolution of Social Behaviors with Their Evolutionary Setting

Erol Akçay

Demography-Dispersal Trait Correlations Modify the Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics of Range Expansion

Brad M. Ochocki, Julia B. Saltz, and Tom E. X. Miller

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

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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

Open Access

Ecological Release of the Anna’s Hummingbird during a Northern Range Expansion

C. J. Battey

How Does the Evolution of Universal Ecological Traits Affect Population Size? Lessons from Simple Models

Peter A. Abrams

When Do Shifts in Trait Dynamics Precede Population Declines?

Gaurav Baruah, Christopher F. Clements, Frédéric Guillaume, and Arpat Ozgul

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/MayBaruah.html

Open Access

Stage-Structured Evolutionary Demography: Linking Life Histories, Population Genetics, and Ecological Dynamics

Charlotte de Vries and Hal Caswell

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/AprDeVries.html

Brood Size Affects Future Reproduction in a Long-Lived Bird with Precocial Young

Alan G. Leach, James S. Sedinger, Thomas V. Riecke, Amanda W. Van Dellen, David H. Ward, and W. Sean Boyd

Open Access

Meeting Yield and Conservation Objectives by Harvesting Both Juveniles and Adults

Niklas L. P. Lundström, Nicolas Loeuille, Xinzhu Meng, Mats Bodin, and Åke Brännström

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/MarLundstrom.html

Open Access

Catastrophic Mortality, Allee Effects, and Marine Protected Areas

Emilius A. Aalto, Fiorenza Micheli, Charles A. Boch, Jose A. Espinoza Montes, C. Broch Woodson, and Giulio A. De Leo

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Shifting Vital Rate Correlations Alter Predicted Population Responses to Increasingly Variable Environments

David T. Iles, Robert F. Rockwell, and David N. Koons

Multiple Evolutionary Routes to Monogamy: Modeling the Coevolution of Mating Decisions and Parental Investment

Arne Jungwirth and Rufus A. Johnstone

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

Matrix Models of Hierarchical Demography: Linking Group- and Population-Level Dynamics in Cooperative Breeders

Andrew W. Bateman, Arpat Ozgul, Martin Krkošek, and Tim H. Clutton-Brock

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