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population sensitivity — RMBL Knowledge Commons

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population sensitivity

Scope: population ecology

Papers: 6 | Mentions: 6

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Knowledge graph centered on population sensitivity with 71 nodes and 128 connections. Top connected: Marmota flaviventris, Hummingbird, Bombus, Ligusticum porteri, Bombus appositus.

Definition

Scaled measure of how population growth rate responds to changes in environmental drivers

Related Terms (5)

sensitivity analysiselasticity patternsproportional sensitivityclimate sensitivityscaled sensitivities

Publications (6)

Comparative life-cycle analyses reveal interacting climatic and biotic drivers of population responses to climate change

2025PNAS Nexuscentral

Demographic Consequences of Phenological Shifts in Response to Climate Change

2021Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematicsreferenced

Stochastic population dynamics of a montane ground-dwelling squirrel

2012PloS ONEmeasured

Influence of local demography on asymptotic and transient dynamics of a yellow-bellied marmot metapopulation

2009American Naturalistframework

Life-history consequences of vegetative damage in scarlet gilia, a monocarpic plant

2007Oikosmeasured

Yellow-bellied marmot population dynamics: demographic mechanisms of growth and decline

2004Ecologyframework

Related Concepts (10)

integral projection models

model type3 shared papers

slow-fast continuum

framework2 shared papers

density dependence

process2 shared papers

vital rates

measurement2 shared papers

population dynamics

theory2 shared papers

metapopulation structure

theory2 shared papers

population growth rate

measurement1 shared paper

Life Table Response Experiment

framework1 shared paper

immigration

process1 shared paper

compensatory response

process1 shared paper

Frequently Associated Species

Marmota flaviventris

Sciuridae6 papers

Atriplex canescens

not mentioned2 papers

Hummingbird

migratory birds

Ovis aries

Bovidae2 papers

small mammals

Parus major

Paridae2 papers

Gasterosteus aculeatus

Gasterosteidae1 paper

Cervus elaphus

Cervidae1 paper

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