Using evolutionary demography to link life history theory, quantitative genetics and population ecology.

ABSTRACT: 1. There is a growing number of empirical reports of environmental change simultaneously influencing population dynamics, life history and quantitative characters. We do not have a well-developed understanding of links between the dynamics of these quantities. 2. Insight into the joint dynamics of populations, quantitative characters and life history can be gained by deriving a model that allows the calculation of fundamental quantities that underpin population ecology, evolutionary biology and life history. The parameterization and analysis of such a model for a specific system can be used to predict how a population will respond to environmental change. 3. Age-stage-structured models can be constructed from character-demography associations that describe age-specific relationships betwee

SUBMITTER: Coulson T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3017750 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature