Concepts

The concept that organisms face competing demands for limited resources during development that create trade-offs between different fitness components

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

Predation behavior where individuals consume members of their own species, particularly common in A. m. nebulosum populations targeting first year hatchlings

Daily mass gain during critical post-emergence development period in juvenile mammals

The progression through larval developmental stages with associated changes in size and feeding capacity

Age and sex characteristics affecting susceptibility to mortality

The distribution of individuals across different size or age classes within a population

Caddisfly larvae ability to construct protective cases from environmental debris using silk-like string

Addition of new individuals to insect populations through successful reproduction and development

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)

A principle stating that allele and genotype frequencies remain constant in a population under certain conditions

Mechanism where state and behavior mutually reinforce each other, measured as positive correlation between individual intercept and slope in random regression models.

Population response where decreases in fitness due to other factors are offset by increases in another demographic parameter

Population estimation method using repeated sampling to remove individuals and estimate total abundance from decline curve

Daily patterns in organism behavior, with some mayfly species showing increased drift activity at night to minimize exposure to visual predators

The body size of mayflies when they emerge as adults from aquatic larval stage