How moving – or not – as conditions change keeps species alive
Summary & Analysis by Jeremy Summers of "Partitioning the impacts of spatial-temporal variation in demography and dispersal on metapopulation growth rates" by Schreiber
https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Feb-2025-Schreiber.html

#Demography #Metapopulation #GrowthRates #EEB

Chen et al. demonstrate that incorporating shape measures improves explanatory models for growth rates and demographic fates. Their findings reveal that colonies of the same species and size can exhibit different fates due to morphological variations.
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https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/735482

#model #species #morphologicalVariations #shape #growthRates