Demography is the study of individuals as members of a population. The dynamics of a population are determined by collectively analyzing individual schedules of survival, growth, and reproduction. Together, these schedules are known as the vital rates of the population. The vital rates, along with dispersal, contribute to population structure, which refers to how the population is organized by ...

*Correspondence: Daniel Oro, Institut Mediterrani d’Estudis Avançats, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas Universidad de las Islas Baleares, Miquel Marques 21, Esporles 07190, Mallorca, Spain e-mail: [email protected] As a physical driver of ecosystem functioning, it is not surprising that climate influences seabird demography and population dynamics, generally by affecting food availabi...

Unobserved population heterogeneity and its impact on life-table estimates motivated the introduction of frailty models three decades ago. The concept of latent individual differences repeatedly proved useful in applications and led to important insights, in demography and beyond. This talk reviews the influence that the seminal paper by Vaupel et al. had on demographic research in general and ...

BACKGROUNDS AND AIMS Shoot demography affects the growth of the tree crown and the number of leaves on a tree. Masting may cause inter-annual and spatial variation in shoot demography of mature trees, which may in turn affect the resource budget of the tree. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of masting on the temporal and spatial variations in shoot demography of mature Betula gr...