In response to the recent publication by the National Bureau of Economic Research that suggests that the iPhone triggered a drop in fertility in the U.S., I have just posted a response, a follow-up to my previous post on human population regulation.
https://dblog.vitumbre.tech/dart/more-on-phone-y-causes-of-declining-fertility-rates/
#Population #Fertility #Reproduction #DensityDependence
More on Phone-y Causes of Declining Fertility Rates
This is a follow-up to the post on Population Regulation in Humans, occasioned by the publication of a new paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research (Myers and Hooper 2026) that argues that the release of the Apple iPhone was responsible for a sudden decline in the birth rate
Earlier this week I posted a short exasperated thread in response to the recent, and somewhat alarmist, spate of items on declining human fertility rates. I have expanded on those posts with more detail about humans and other species at
https://dblog.vitumbre.tech/dart/population-regulation-in-humans/
#Fertility #Population #DensityDependence #Biology #Science
Hernández et al. demonstrated that the apparent resilience of a population can increase or decrease with population density, depending on the resilience metric and the vital rate target of DD.
Read now ahead of print!
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/739605
#DensityDependence #PopulationResilience #EEB
New publication: Linking Individual Performance to Density-Dependent Population Dynamics to Understand Temperature-Mediated Genotype
#Coexistence.
#climatechange #densitydependence https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.70214Small Populations, Large Conservation Challenges:
Turgeon et al. evaluate the relative influence of density-dependence, environmental conditions, and sporadic events on annual ungulate population growth. Summary & Analysis by Madeline Eppley!
https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/2024-Dec-Turgeon.html
#population #conservation #densityDependence #environment #ungulate #populationGrowth
Small Populations, Large Conservation Challenges: The Surprising Power of Sporadic Events
<p>Read about “Sporadic Events Have a Greater Influence on the Dynamics of Small, Isolated Populations Than Density Dependence and Environmental Conditions” by Roxanne Turgeon, Fanie Pelletier, Steeve D. Côté, Marco Festa-Bianchet, and Sandra Hamel (Dec 2024)</p><br/>
Our latest paper out in Ecology and Evolution:
‘Logistic-growth models measuring density feedback are sensitive to population declines, but not fluctuating carrying capacity’
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ece3.10010
#densitydependence #populationdynamics #populationecology #ecology #ecologicalmodelling
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