When individual life history matters: conditions for juvenile-adult stage structure effects on population dynamics.

ABSTRACT: Ecological theory about the dynamics of interacting populations is mainly based on unstructured models that account for species abundances only. In turn, these models constitute the basis for our understanding of the functioning of ecological communities and ecosystems and their responses to environmental change, natural disturbances and human impacts. Structured models that take into account differences between individuals in age, stage or size have been shown to sometimes make predictions that run counter to the predictions of unstructured analogues. It is however unclear which biological mechanisms that are accounted for in the structured models give rise to these contrasting predictions. Focusing on two particular rules-of-thumb that generally hold in unstructured consumer-resource mod

SUBMITTER: de Roos AM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6405019 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature