Mean survival rate and their temporal environmental (process) variance for 89 species of vertebrates

Current environmental changes may increase temporal variability of life-history traits of species, which can significantly affect their long-term population growth rate and their extinction risk. There is a need to estimate environmental variance (i.e., process variance) of life-history traits (EV). For example, if there is a general relationship between EVs and mean annual survival rates of species, that relationship could be used as a guideline for analyses of population growth and extinction risk for populations where data on EVs are missing. For this purpose we present a comprehensive compilation of 252 EV estimates from 89 species belonging to five vertebrate taxa (mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians and fish) covering mean annual survival rates from 0.01 to 0.98. Since variances of survival rates are constrained by their means, particularly for low and high mean survival rates, we assessed whether any observed relationship persisted after applying two types of commonly used varia..., We extracted all studies up to and including 2018 from Web of Science that cited the following publications describing methods for estimating EV of life-history traits, i.e., Link & Nichols (1994), Engen, Bakke & Islam (1998), Gould & Nichols (1998), Kendall (1998), White & Burnham (1999), Akcakaya (2002), Burnham & White (2002), and Altwegg, Schaub & Roulin (2007). White & Burnham (1999) has a very large number of citations because it is the primary reference for the program MARK. For these studies we therefore used the additional search terms “reproduction AND variance”, “survival AND variance”, “environmental varia*”, “process variance”, “sampling variance”, “vital rates” and “(reproduction OR fecundity OR fertility) AND variance” to filter the citations. We also included other relevant studies, such as papers referenced in Morris et al. (2011) and data in Morris & Doak (2002).
We only used data from studies that explicitly partitioned observed varianc..., , # Mean survival rate and their temporal environmental (process) variance for 89 species of vertebrates

A compilation of data on annual mean survival rates and its environmental (process) variance in studies of vertebrates published up to September 2018. We only included estimates on process variance when sampling variance was accounted for.

The previous version included a few studies (n=8) using covariates in models estimating environmental variance and a studies based on survival estimates from a shorter time window than a year. We therefore omitted these studies. In this compilation only studies based on annual survival rates and on EV estimates from models without any environmental covariates (e.g., climate variables or population density) are included.

Compared to the previous version we also added a column \"AD/JUV\" for the comparison between adults and juveniles and we recorded the column Ad/juv-imm according to the description below. Last we added a column called \"population ...