Heterogeneity of reproductive age increases the viability of semelparous populations

Functional Ecology

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 458-468

  Acker, Paul ^a   Robert, Alexandre ^b   Bourget, Romain ^c   Colas, Bruno ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ D'ANGERS   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

Author keywords

Centaurea corymbosa; Demographic buffering; Demographic heterogeneity; Density dependence; Environmental stochasticity; Intraspecific competition; Life history trait; Overlapping generations; Population viability analysis; Synchrony

Indexed keywords

AGE; ASSESSMENT METHOD; DATA SET; DEMOGRAPHY; DENSITY DEPENDENCE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; FECUNDITY; GENETIC VARIATION; HERB; HETEROGENEITY; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; LIFE CYCLE; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; PARAMETERIZATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION STRUCTURE; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; SEEDLING; SEMELPARITY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STOCHASTICITY; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

CENTAUREA; CENTAUREA CORYMBOSA;

EID: 84896055191     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: 13652435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2435.12187     Document Type: Article

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