• Accounting for interspecific competition and age structure in demographic analyses of density dependence improves predictions of fluctuations in population size 

      Gamelon, Marlène; Vriend, Stefan; Engen, Steinar; Adriaensen, Frank; Dhondt, A.A.; Evans, Simon R.; Matthysen, Erik; Sheldon, Ben C.; Sæther, Bernt-Erik (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)
      Understanding species coexistence has long been a major goal of ecology. Coexistence theory for two competing species posits that intraspecific density dependence should be stronger than interspecific density dependence. ...
    • Directional turnover towards larger-ranged plants over time and across habitats 

      Staude, Ingmar R.; Pereira, Henrique M.; Daskalova, Gergana N.; Bernhardt-Römermann, Markus; Diekmann, Martin; Pauli, Harald; Van Calster, Hans; Vellend, Mark; Bjorkman, Anne D.; Brunet, Jörg; De Frenne, Pieter; Hédl, Radim; Jandt, Ute; Lenoir, Jonathan; Myers-Smith, Isla H.; Verheyen, Kris; Wipf, Sonja; Wulf, Monika; Andrews, Christopher; Barančok, Peter; Barni, Elena; Benito-Alonso, José-Luis; Bennie, Jonathan; Berki, Imre; Blüml, Volker; Chudomelová, Markéta; Decocq, Guillaume; Dick, Jan; Dirnböck, Thomas; Durak, Tomasz; Eriksson, Ove; Erschbamer, Brigitta; Graae, Bente Jessen; Heinken, Thilo; Schei, Fride Høistad; Jaroszewicz, Bogdan; Kopecký, Martin; Kudernatsch, Thomas; Macek, Martin; Malicki, Marek; Máliš, František; Michelsen, Ottar; Naaf, Tobias; Nagel, Thomas A.; Newton, Adrian C.; Nicklas, Lena; Oddi, Ludovica; Ortmann-Ajkai, Adrienne; Palaj, Andrej; Petraglia, Alessandro; Petřík, Petr; Pielech, Remigiusz; Porro, Francesco; Puşcaş, Mihai; Reczyńska, Kamila; Rixen, Christian; Schmidt, Wolfgang; Standovár, Tibor; Steinbauer, Klaus; Świerkosz, Krzysztof; Teleki, Balázs; Theurillat, Jean-Paul; Turtureanu, Pavel Dan; Ursu, Tudor-Mihai; Vanneste, Thomas; Vergeer, Philippine; Vild, Ondřej; Villar, Luis; Vittoz, Pascal; Winkler, Manuela; Baeten, Lander (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Species turnover is ubiquitous. However, it remains unknown whether certain types of species are consistently gained or lost across different habitats. Here, we analysed the trajectories of 1827 plant species over time ...
    • Divergence in rates of phenotypic plasticity among ectotherms 

      Einum, Sigurd; Burton, Tim (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      An individual's fitness cost associated with environmental change likely depends on the rate of adaptive phenotypic plasticity, and yet our understanding of plasticity rates in an ecological and evolutionary context remains ...
    • Drivers of vegetative dormancy across herbaceous perennial plant species 

      Shefferson, Richard P.; Kull, Tiiu; Hutchings, Michael J.; Selosse, Marc-André; Jacquemyn, Hans; Kellett, Kimberly M.; Menges, Eric S.; Primack, Richard B.; Tuomi, Juha; Alahuhta, Kirsi; Hurskainen, Sonja; Alexander, Helen M.; Anderson, Derek S.; Brys, Rein; Brzosko, Emilia; Dostálik, Slavomir; Gregg, Katharine; Ipser, Zdenek; Jäkäläniemi, Anne; Jersáková, Jana; Kettle, W. Dean; McCormick, Melissa; Mendoza, Ana; Miller, Michael T.; Moen, Asbjørn; Øien, Dag-Inge; Püttsepp, Ülle; Roy, Mélanie; Sather, Nancy; Sletvold, Nina; Stípková, Zuzana; Tali, Kadri; Warren, Robert J. II; Whigham, Dennis F. (Journal article, 2018)
      Vegetative dormancy, that is the temporary absence of aboveground growth for ≥ 1 year, is paradoxical, because plants cannot photosynthesise or flower during dormant periods. We test ecological and evolutionary hypotheses ...
    • Harvesting can stabilise population fluctuations and buffer the impacts of extreme climatic events 

      Peeters, Bart; Grøtan, Vidar; Gamelon, Marlène; Veiberg, Vebjørn; Lee, Aline Magdalena; Fryxell, John M.; Albon, Steve D.; Sæther, Bernt-Erik; Engen, Steinar; Loe, Leif Egil; Hansen, Brage Bremset (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Harvesting can magnify the destabilising effects of environmental perturbations on population dynamics and, thereby, increase extinction risk. However, population-dynamic theory predicts that impacts of harvesting depend ...
    • Modelling time to population extinction when individual reproduction is autocorrelated 

      Lee, Aline Magdalena; Sæther, Bernt-Erik; Markussen, Stine Svalheim; Engen, Steinar (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017)
      In nature, individual reproductive success is seldom independent from year to year, due to factors such as reproductive costs and individual heterogeneity. However, population projection models that incorporate temporal ...
    • Phenological asynchrony: a ticking time‐bomb for seemingly stable populations? 

      Simmonds, Emily Grace; Cole, Ella F.; Sheldon, Ben C.; Coulson, Tim (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Climate change has been shown to induce shifts in the timing of life‐history events. As a result, interactions between species can become disrupted, with potentially detrimental effects. Predicting these consequences has ...
    • Spatial scaling of population synchrony in marine fish depends on their life history 

      Fredricson Marquez, Jonatan; Lee, Aline Magdalena; Aanes, Sondre; Engen, Steinar; Herfindal, Ivar; Salthaug, Are; Sæther, Bernt-Erik (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)
      The synchrony of population dynamics in space has important implications for ecological processes, for example affecting the spread of diseases, spatial distributions and risk of extinction. Here, we studied the relationship ...
    • 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; Rotella, Jay J.; Teplitsky, Céline; Visser, Marcel E.; Wells, Caitlin P.; Wheelwright, Nathaniel T.; Jenouvrier, Stéphanie; Sæther, Bernt-Erik (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      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 ...
    • 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; Rotella, Jay J.; Teplitsky, Céline; Visser, Marcel E.; Wells, Caitlin P.; Wheelwright, Nathaniel T.; Jenouvrier, Stéphanie; Sæther, Bernt-Erik (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      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 ...
    • Variation in generation time reveals density regulation as an important driver of pace of life in a bird metapopulation 

      Araya-Ajoy, Yimen; Niskanen, Alina Katariina; Froy, Hannah; Ranke, Peter Sjolte; Kvalnes, Thomas; Rønning, Bernt; Pepke, Michael Le; Jensen, Henrik; Ringsby, Thor Harald; Sæther, Bernt-Erik; Wright, Jonathan (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Generation time determines the pace of key demographic and evolutionary processes. Quantified as the weighted mean age at reproduction, it can be studied as a life-history trait that varies within and among populations and ...