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Dec 3, 2024 | 
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Roberto Salguero-Gómez |Darren Evans |Jean-Michel Gaillard |Lesley T. Lancaster
1 WHAT ARE ECOLOGICAL CONCEPTS, AND WHY ARE THEY IMPORTANT? Concepts are abstract ideas that describe processes of interest. As such, concepts are the backbone to theories in any science. Concepts and theories are related in that novel theories cannot emerge without the existence of the solid concepts that underpin them.
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Oct 31, 2024 | 
biorxiv.org | Elias Formaggia |Lucy Morley |Keith Kirby |Roberto Salguero-Gómez
AbstractGenetic diversity is fundamental for adaptation to changing environments. It is particularly important in forest trees because of their significant role in nature's contribution to people. However, their genetic diversity has been significantly changed by human activities in the past centuries.
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Oct 29, 2024 | 
onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Aldo Compagnoni |Dylan Childs |Roberto Salguero-Gómez
1 Introduction Understanding and predicting population dynamics is a key objective of Ecology (Sutherland et al. 2013). In population ecology, the last decades have witnessed the development and application of many statistical methods aimed precisely at this objective (Caswell 2001; Ellner, Childs, and Rees 2016).
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Oct 28, 2024 | 
royalsocietypublishing.org | Roberto Salguero-Gómez |Salguero-Gómez R |Salguero-Gómez Roberto
Quantifying the links between sociality and demography is crucial to understand and forecast the dynamics of animal wildlife populations [1,2]. Indeed, social structures can influence various aspects of an organism’s life, including its survival [3,4] and reproduction [5,6]. As such, the links between sociality and the demography of animal species have gained increasing attention in recent years [7–9], as we strive to unravel the mechanisms underlying population fluctuations and viability [10,11].
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Oct 1, 2024 | 
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Jacques Deere |Penelope Holland |Aziz A. Aboobaker |Roberto Salguero-Gómez
1 INTRODUCTION A hydra [a potentially immortal metazoan (Martı́nez, 1998)] walks out of a bar … and is run over by a bus. Nothing lasts forever, including potential immortality. How age impacts individual performance and fitness has received much attention (Baudisch, 2011; Baudisch & Stott, 2019; Caswell & Salguero-Gómez, 2013; Kirkwood, 1977; Medvedev, 1990; Vaupel, 2010).
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Sep 22, 2024 | 
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Adriana Malvasio |Guarino Rinaldi Colli |Departamento de Zoología |Roberto Salguero-Gómez
• ( ). Effects of fire regimes on lizards in the wet-dry tropics of Australia . Journal of Tropical Ecology, , – . https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266467400002145• , , , & ( ). Recent exposure to environmental stochasticity does not determine the demographic resilience of natural populations . Ecology Letters, , – . https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.14234• , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , & ( ). Fire management for biodiversity conservation: Key research questions and our capacity to answer them .
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Aug 4, 2024 | 
biorxiv.org | Aldo Compagnoni |Dylan Childs |Roberto Salguero-Gómez
AbstractUnderstanding mechanisms and predicting natural population responses to climate is a key goal of Ecology. However, studies explicitly linking climate to population dynamics remain limited. Antecedent effect models are a set of statistical tools that capitalize on the evidence provided by climate and population data to select time windows correlated with a response (e.g., survival, reproduction). Thus, these models can serve as both a predictive and exploratory tool.
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Jul 13, 2024 | 00139-3&sz=64)
cell.com | Iain M. Stott |Roberto Salguero-Gómez |Owen Jones |Thomas H.G. Ezard
HighlightsLife history studies support the fast–slow continuum as the dominant but not unique axis structuring life history variation. Other important axes of life history variation associated with development and reproductive tactics exist, and exploration of further axes, clusters, and boundaries of life history variation is needed. Existing life history analyses are venturing far from theory and could benefit from a stronger focus on hypothesis testing rather than exploration.
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Jun 27, 2024 | 
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Connor Bernard |Charlotte de Vries |Owen Jones |Roberto Salguero-Gómez
Supported by the emergence of multiple demographic datasets (e.g. Gaillard et al., 2021; Levin et al., 2022; Salguero-Gómez et al., 2015, 2016) and long-term studies (e.g. Clutton-Brock & Pemberton, 2004; Festa-Bianchet et al., 2017; Nussey et al., 2013; Pemberton et al., 2022), ageing research and comparative demography have undusted (Colchero et al., 2016; Gaillard & Lemaître, 2020; Wrycza et al., 2015), and developed (Baudisch & Stott, 2019) new metrics to quantify actuarial senescence—the...
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Jun 20, 2024 | 
biorxiv.org | Jacques Deere |Penelope Holland |Aziz A. Aboobaker |Roberto Salguero-Gómez
AbstractPotential immortality is observed in several species (e.g., prickly pear cactus, hydra, flatworms) and is indicative of their negligible or even negative senescence rates. Unlike in senescent species, which experience reduced individual performance with age due to physiological degradation, species with negligible or negative senescence display mortality rates that remain constant or decline with age, respectively. These rates vary across taxa and are correlated with life history traits.
