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generation time — RMBL Knowledge Commons

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generation time

Scope: population ecology

Papers: 2 | Mentions: 2

Local Knowledge Graph (Top 68 entities)

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Knowledge graph centered on generation time with 68 nodes and 134 connections. Top connected: Marmota, Marmota flaviventris, Crested Butte, Callospermophilus lateralis, Colorado East River Valley.

Definition

The mean age of females when they lay eggs or give birth, calculated as the inverse of the sum of elasticities of population growth rate to changes in fecundities

Related Terms (1)

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Publications (2)

Temporal correlations among demographic parameters are ubiquitous but highly variable across species

2022Ecology Letters

Weather influences on demography of the yellow-bellied marmot (<i>Marmota flaviventris</i>)

2005Journal of Zoology, London

Related Concepts (9)

demographic stochasticity

process2 shared papers

Survival-at-birth rates

measurement1 shared paper

slow-fast continuum

framework1 shared paper

reproduction ratio

metric1 shared paper

density-dependent population regulation

theory1 shared paper

vital rates

measurement1 shared paper

demographic covariation

process1 shared paper

Petersen mark-recapture method

process1 shared paper

hibernation energetics

process1 shared paper

Frequently Associated Species

Picea engelmannii

Pinaceae1 paper

Festuca thurberi

Callospermophilus lateralis

Sciuridae1 paper

Ovis aries

Turdus migratorius

Turdidae1 paper

Marmota flaviventris

Sciuridae1 paper

Cinclus cinclus

Cinclidae1 paper

Parus major

Cyanistes caeruleus

Populus tremuloides

Salicaceae1 paper