Demographic correction-A tool for inference from individuals to populations

0557421 - BÚ 2024 RIV GB eng J - Journal Article
Klimeš, Adam - Klimešová, Jitka - Janovský, Zdeněk - Herben, Tomáš
Demographic correction-A tool for inference from individuals to populations.
Functional Ecology. Roč. 36, č. 5 (2022), s. 1078-1086. ISSN 0269-8463. E-ISSN 1365-2435
R&D Projects: GA MŠMT LTT20003; GA ČR(CZ) GA19-13231S
Institutional support: RVO:67985939
Keywords : comparative demography * life-history strategy * loop analysis * population growth rate * projection matrices * vital rates
OECD category: Plant sciences, botany
Impact factor: 5.2, year: 2022
Method of publishing: Limited access
https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.14031

Estimation of responses of organisms to their environment using experimental manipulations, and comparison of such responses across sets of species, is one of the primary tools in ecology research. The most common approach is to compare the response of a single life stage of species to an environmental factor and use this information to draw conclusions about population dynamics of these species. Such approach ignores the fact that interspecific fitness differences measured at a single life stage are not directly comparable and cannot be extrapolated to lifetime fitness of individuals and thus species' population dynamics. Comparison of one life stage only while omitting demographic information can strongly bias conclusions, both in experimental studies with a few species and in large comparative studies.
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