Ozgul, Arpat and Coulson, Tim and Reynolds, Alan and Cameron, Tom C and Benton, Tim G (2012) Population Responses to Perturbations: The Importance of Trait-Based Analysis Illustrated through a Microcosm Experiment. The American Naturalist, 179 (5). pp. 582-594. DOI https://doi.org/10.1086/664999
Ozgul, Arpat and Coulson, Tim and Reynolds, Alan and Cameron, Tom C and Benton, Tim G (2012) Population Responses to Perturbations: The Importance of Trait-Based Analysis Illustrated through a Microcosm Experiment. The American Naturalist, 179 (5). pp. 582-594. DOI https://doi.org/10.1086/664999
Ozgul, Arpat and Coulson, Tim and Reynolds, Alan and Cameron, Tom C and Benton, Tim G (2012) Population Responses to Perturbations: The Importance of Trait-Based Analysis Illustrated through a Microcosm Experiment. The American Naturalist, 179 (5). pp. 582-594. DOI https://doi.org/10.1086/664999
Abstract
Environmental change continually perturbs populations from a stable state, leading to transient dynamics that can last multiple generations. Several long-term studies have reported changes in trait distributions along with demographic response to environmental change. Here we conducted an experimental study on soil mites and investigated the interaction between demography and an individual trait over a period of nonstationary dynamics. By following individual fates and body sizes at each life-history stage, we investigated how body size and population density influenced demographic rates. By comparing the ability of two alternative approaches, a matrix projection model and an integral projection model, we investigated whether consideration of trait-based demography enhances our ability to predict transient dynamics. By utilizing a prospective perturbation analysis, we addressed which stage-specific demographic or trait-transition rate had the greatest influence on population dynamics. Both body size and population density had important effects on most rates; however, these effects differed substantially among life-history stages. Considering the observed trait-demography relationships resulted in better predictions of a population's response to perturbations, which highlights the role of phenotypic plasticity in transient dynamics. Although the perturbation analyses provided comparable predictions of stage-specific elasticities between the matrix and integral projection models, the order of importance of the life-history stages differed between the two analyses. In conclusion, we demonstrate how a trait-based demographic approach provides further insight into transient population dynamics. © 2012 by The University of Chicago.
Item Type: | Article |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | integral projection model; matrix population model; Sancassania berlesei; soil mite; trait-based demography; transient perturbation analysis; transient population dynamics |
Subjects: | Q Science > QH Natural history > QH301 Biology |
Divisions: | Faculty of Science and Health Faculty of Science and Health > Life Sciences, School of |
SWORD Depositor: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Date Deposited: | 18 Sep 2014 15:26 |
Last Modified: | 07 Aug 2024 20:09 |
URI: | http://repository.essex.ac.uk/id/eprint/10290 |