Consequences of cross‐season demographic correlations for population viability
Abstract Demographic correlations are pervasive in wildlife populations and can represent important secondary drivers of population growth. Empirical evidence suggests that correlations are in general positive for long‐lived species, but little is known about the degree of variation among spatially...
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| author | Kate Layton‐Matthews Tone K. Reiertsen Kjell‐Einar Erikstad Tycho Anker‐Nilssen Francis Daunt Sarah Wanless Robert T. Barrett Mark A. Newell Mike P. Harris |
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| description | Abstract Demographic correlations are pervasive in wildlife populations and can represent important secondary drivers of population growth. Empirical evidence suggests that correlations are in general positive for long‐lived species, but little is known about the degree of variation among spatially segregated populations of the same species in relation to environmental conditions. We assessed the relative importance of two cross‐season correlations in survival and productivity, for three Atlantic puffin (Fratercula arctica) populations with contrasting population trajectories and non‐overlapping year‐round distributions. The two correlations reflected either a relationship between adult survival prior to breeding on productivity, or a relationship between productivity and adult survival the subsequent year. Demographic rates and their correlations were estimated with an integrated population model, and their respective contributions to variation in population growth were calculated using a transient‐life table response experiment. For all three populations, demographic correlations were positive at both time lags, although their strength differed. Given the different year‐round distributions of these populations, this variation in the strength population‐level demographic correlations points to environmental conditions as an important driver of demographic variation through life‐history constraints. Consequently, the contributions of variances and correlations in demographic rates to population growth rates differed among puffin populations, which has implications for—particularly small—populations' viability under environmental change as positive correlations tend to reduce the stochastic population growth rate. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-cba41ed485ab4f2eb8e802855a797e6f2025-08-20T02:56:31ZengWileyEcology and Evolution2045-77582023-07-01137n/an/a10.1002/ece3.10312Consequences of cross‐season demographic correlations for population viabilityKate Layton‐Matthews0Tone K. Reiertsen1Kjell‐Einar Erikstad2Tycho Anker‐Nilssen3Francis Daunt4Sarah Wanless5Robert T. Barrett6Mark A. Newell7Mike P. Harris8Norwegian Institute for Nature Research FRAM Centre Tromsø NorwayNorwegian Institute for Nature Research FRAM Centre Tromsø NorwayNorwegian Institute for Nature Research FRAM Centre Tromsø NorwayNorwegian Institute for Nature Research Trondheim NorwayUK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Bush Estate Penicuik UKUK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Bush Estate Penicuik UKDepartment of Natural Sciences Tromsø University Museum Tromsø NorwayUK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Bush Estate Penicuik UKUK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Bush Estate Penicuik UKAbstract Demographic correlations are pervasive in wildlife populations and can represent important secondary drivers of population growth. Empirical evidence suggests that correlations are in general positive for long‐lived species, but little is known about the degree of variation among spatially segregated populations of the same species in relation to environmental conditions. We assessed the relative importance of two cross‐season correlations in survival and productivity, for three Atlantic puffin (Fratercula arctica) populations with contrasting population trajectories and non‐overlapping year‐round distributions. The two correlations reflected either a relationship between adult survival prior to breeding on productivity, or a relationship between productivity and adult survival the subsequent year. Demographic rates and their correlations were estimated with an integrated population model, and their respective contributions to variation in population growth were calculated using a transient‐life table response experiment. For all three populations, demographic correlations were positive at both time lags, although their strength differed. Given the different year‐round distributions of these populations, this variation in the strength population‐level demographic correlations points to environmental conditions as an important driver of demographic variation through life‐history constraints. Consequently, the contributions of variances and correlations in demographic rates to population growth rates differed among puffin populations, which has implications for—particularly small—populations' viability under environmental change as positive correlations tend to reduce the stochastic population growth rate.https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.10312Atlantic puffindemographic correlationsintegrated population modelmulti‐population studiespopulation dynamicsseabird |
| spellingShingle | Kate Layton‐Matthews Tone K. Reiertsen Kjell‐Einar Erikstad Tycho Anker‐Nilssen Francis Daunt Sarah Wanless Robert T. Barrett Mark A. Newell Mike P. Harris Consequences of cross‐season demographic correlations for population viability Ecology and Evolution Atlantic puffin demographic correlations integrated population model multi‐population studies population dynamics seabird |
| title | Consequences of cross‐season demographic correlations for population viability |
| title_full | Consequences of cross‐season demographic correlations for population viability |
| title_fullStr | Consequences of cross‐season demographic correlations for population viability |
| title_full_unstemmed | Consequences of cross‐season demographic correlations for population viability |
| title_short | Consequences of cross‐season demographic correlations for population viability |
| title_sort | consequences of cross season demographic correlations for population viability |
| topic | Atlantic puffin demographic correlations integrated population model multi‐population studies population dynamics seabird |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.10312 |
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