• Context-dependent fitness costs of reproduction despite stable body mass costs in an Arctic herbivore 

      Pigeon, Gabriel; Albon, Steve; Loe, Leif Egil; Bischof, Richard; Bonenfant, Christophe; Ropstad, Erik; Veiberg, Vebjørn; Stien, Audun (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-09-20)
      1.The cost of reproduction on demographic rates is often assumed to operate through changing body condition. Several studies have found that reproduction depresses body mass more if the current conditions are severe, such as high population densities or adverse weather, than under benign environmental conditions. However, few studies have investigated the association between the fitness components ...
    • Quantifying fixed individual heterogeneity in demographic parameters: Performance of correlated random effects for Bernoulli variables 

      Fay, Rémi; Authier, Matthieu; Hamel, Sandra; Jenouvrier, Stéphanie; van de Pol, Martijn; Cam, Emmanuelle; Gaillard, Jean-Michel; Yoccoz, Nigel G.; Acker, Paul; Allen, Andrew; Aubry, Lise M.; Bonenfant, Christophe; Caswell, Hal; Coste, Christophe; Larue, Benjamin; Le Coeur, Christie; Gamelon, Marlène; Macdonald, Kaitlin R.; Moiron, Maria; Nicol-Harper, Alex; Pelletier, Fanie; Rotella, Jay J.; Teplitsky, Celine; Touzot, Laura; Wells, Caitlin P.; Sæther, Bernt-Erik (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-09-24)
      <ol type="1"> <li>An increasing number of empirical studies aim to quantify individual variation in demographic parameters because these patterns are key for evolutionary and ecological processes. Advanced approaches to estimate individual heterogeneity are now using a multivariate normal distribution with correlated individual random effects to account for the latent correlations among different ...
    • Temporal correlations among demographic parameters are ubiquitous but highly variable across species 

      Fay, Rémi; Hamel, Sandra; Van de Pol, Martijn; Gaillard, Jean Michel; Yoccoz, Nigel; Acker, Paul; Authier, Matthieu; Larue, Benjamin; Le Coeur, Christie; Macdonald, Kaitlin R.; Nicol-Harper, Alex; Barbraud, Christophe; Bonenfant, Christophe; Van Vuren, Dirk H.; Cam, Emmanuelle; Delord, Karine; Gamelon, Marlène; Moiron, Maria; Pelletier, Fanie; Teplitsky, Céline; Visser, Marcel E.; Wells, Caitlin P.; Wheelwright, Nathaniel T.; Jenouvrier, Stéphanie; Sæther, Bernt-Erik (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-05-24)
      Temporal correlations among demographic parameters can strongly influence population dynamics. Our empirical knowledge, however, is very limited regarding the direction and the magnitude of these correlations and how they vary among demographic parameters and species’ life histories. Here, we use long-term demographic data from 15 bird and mammal species with contrasting pace of life to quantify ...