In the Painted Bunting (Passerina ciris), a North American songbird, populations on the Atlantic coast and interior southern United States are known to be allopatric during the breeding season, but ef
This Excel workbook implements a full period life table using the formulas set out in chapter 3 of:Preston S H, Heuveline P, and Guillot M (2001) Demography: Measuring and Modeling Population Processe
The ratio of the effective number of breeders (Nb) to the adult census size (Na), Nb/ Na, approximates the departure from the standard capacity of a population to maintain genetic diversity in one rep
Life-history traits such as rates of growth, survival and reproduction can vary though time within a single population, or through space among populations, due to abiotically-driven changes in resourc