Individual heterogeneity in life histories and eco-evolutionary dynamics.

ABSTRACT: Individual heterogeneity in life history shapes eco-evolutionary processes, and unobserved heterogeneity can affect demographic outputs characterising life history and population dynamical properties. Demographic frameworks like matrix models or integral projection models represent powerful approaches to disentangle mechanisms linking individual life histories and population-level processes. Recent developments have provided important steps towards their application to study eco-evolutionary dynamics, but so far individual heterogeneity has largely been ignored. Here, we present a general demographic framework that incorporates individual heterogeneity in a flexible way, by separating static and dynamic traits (discrete or continuous). First, we apply the framework to derive the consequenc

SUBMITTER: Vindenes Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4524410 | biostudies-literature | 2015 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature