Temporal variability in demographic rates has been viewed as detrimental to long-term fitness, but a newer idea is that it may sometimes be beneficial. Morris and Doak reassess the conditions necessary for lability to occur.
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What Is Demographic Lability and When Might We Expect to See It? | The American Naturalist
Abstract When vital rates are convex functions of environmental drivers, temporal variation in those vital rates could increase long-term stochastic fitness (so-called demographic lability). Yet no em...
