Structured Demographic Buffering: A Framework to Explore the Environmental Components and Demographic Mechanisms Underlying Demographic Buffering.

ABSTRACT: Environmental stochasticity is a key determinant of population viability. Decades of work exploring how environmental stochasticity influences population dynamics have highlighted the ability of some natural populations to limit the negative effects of environmental stochasticity, one of the strategies being demographic buffering. Whilst various methods exist to quantify demographic buffering, we still do not know which environmental components and demographic mechanisms are most responsible for the demographic buffering observed in natural populations. Here, we introduce a framework to explore the relative impacts of environmental components (i.e., temporal autocorrelation and variance in demographic rates) on demographic buffering and the demographic mechanisms that underly these impacts

SUBMITTER: Gascoigne SJL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11862329 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature