Concepts

The spatial arrangement and connectivity of subpopulations across a landscape that influences local population dynamics

Age and sex characteristics affecting susceptibility to mortality

Production of extracellular polymeric stalk material by diatoms when photosynthetic rates exceed cellular growth rates

The hypothesis that relationships between egg and juvenile densities are linear when egg densities are constrained below values where eggs or hatching juveniles suffer density-dependent losses

Body size when organisms transition from growth to reproduction, with important consequences for lifetime reproductive success

Some environments will be resource rich and produce a high amount of offspring (sources) while other environments will be resource low and produce a low amount of offspring (sinks)