Population and evolutionary dynamics in spatially structured seasonally varying environments.

ABSTRACT: Increasingly imperative objectives in ecology are to understand and forecast population dynamic and evolutionary responses to seasonal environmental variation and change. Such population and evolutionary dynamics result from immediate and lagged responses of all key life-history traits, and resulting demographic rates that affect population growth rate, to seasonal environmental conditions and population density. However, existing population dynamic and eco-evolutionary theory and models have not yet fully encompassed within-individual and among-individual variation, covariation, structure and heterogeneity, and ongoing evolution, in a critical life-history trait that allows individuals to respond to seasonal environmental conditions: seasonal migration. Meanwhile, empirical studies aided

SUBMITTER: Reid JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6849584 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature