Why we cannot always expect life history strategies to directly inform on sensitivity to environmental change

Speed of life and reproductive strategy form the two major axes that organize variation in life history strategies across plant and animal species. The position of a species along these axes can inform on their sensitivity to environmental change. This provides a tantalizing link between sets of traits and population responses to change, contained in a highly generalizable theoretical framework. The underlying mechanisms are assumed to be governed by life history tradeoffs at the individual level. Examples include the tradeoff between current and future reproductive success, and investing energy into growth versus reproduction. But the importance of such tradeoffs in structuring population-level responses to environmental change remains understudied. We aim to increase our understanding of the link between individual-level life history tradeoffs and the structuring of life history strategies across species, and if they link to population responses to environmental change. We find that t..., , , # Why we cannot always expect life history strategies to directly inform on sensitivity to environmental change

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The dataset provides the code to run DEB-IPM models used in the study in MATLAB and analyze PCA-results.

## Global description of the data and file structure

The PCA zip.file contains a data table and R code to run the PCA analysis presented in the manuscript.
The MATLAB zip.file contains all matlab files required to run the DEB-IPMS and perform perturbation analysis presented in the manuscript.

**Detail PCA zip.file description**

* PCA_table.xlsx contains the trait data and sensitivity values for all model species used as input for the PCA analysis.
* PhyloPCA_Fish.R contains the code to run a PCA analysis using PCA_table.xlsx as input and correcting for phylogeny.
* PhyloPCA_Fish_No_Phyl.R contains the code to run a PCA analysis using PCA_table.xlsx as input without correcting for phylogeny.
* PhyloPCA_Fish_Body_size_correction.R contains the code to run ...