Quantifying the effect of genetic, environmental and individual demographic stochastic variability for population dynamics in Plantago lanceolata.

ABSTRACT: Simple demographic events, the survival and reproduction of individuals, drive population dynamics. These demographic events are influenced by genetic and environmental parameters, and are the focus of many evolutionary and ecological investigations that aim to predict and understand population change. However, such a focus often neglects the stochastic events that individuals experience throughout their lives. These stochastic events also influence survival and reproduction and thereby evolutionary and ecological dynamics. Here, we illustrate the influence of such non-selective demographic variability on population dynamics using population projection models of an experimental population of Plantago lanceolata. Our analysis shows that the variability in survival and reproduction among ind

SUBMITTER: Steiner UK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8633285 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature