Demographic responses underlying eco-evolutionary dynamics as revealed with inverse modelling.

ABSTRACT: Changes in population dynamics due to interacting evolutionary and ecological processes are the direct result of responses in vital rates, that is stage-specific growth, survival and fecundity. Quantifying through which vital rates population fitness is affected, instead of focusing on population trends only, can give a more mechanistic understanding of eco-evolutionary dynamics. The aim of this study was to estimate the underlying demographic rates of aphid (Myzus persicae) populations. We analysed unpublished stage-structure population dynamics data of a field experiment with caged and uncaged populations in which rapid evolutionary dynamics were observed, as well as unpublished results from an individual life table experiment performed in a glasshouse. Using data on changes in populatio

SUBMITTER: Bruijning M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6850177 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature