Assessing the impacts of ongoing climate and anthropogenic-induced change on wildlife
populations requires understanding species distributions and abundances across large …

Ecology Letters (2011) 14: 959–970 Abstract Empirical models are central to effective
conservation and population management, and should be predictive of real‐world …

Accelerating rates of biodiversity loss underscore the need to understand how species
achieve resilience—the ability to resist and recover from a/biotic disturbances. Yet, the …

Quantifying stability properties of ecosystems is an important problem in ecology. A common
approach is based on the recovery from pulse perturbations, and posits that the faster an …

Uncertainty associated with ecological forecasts has long been recognized, but forecast
accuracy is rarely quantified. We evaluated how well data on 82 populations of 20 species of …

Seed dispersal sets the stage for the suite of biotic and abiotic interactions that determine
the fate of individual seeds. In this review, we first focus on how dispersal influences the …

Temporal fluctuations in growth rates can arise from both variation in age‐specific vital rates
and temporal fluctuations in age structure (ie the relative abundance of individuals in each …

Trends in population growth can be monitored with data for key vital rates without
knowledge of abundance. Although adult female survival has the highest elasticity for …

Understanding population responses to discrete 'pulsed'environmental disturbances is
essential to conservation and adaptive management. Populations of concern can be driven …

Implementation of no‐take marine reserves is typically followed by monitoring to ensure that
a reserve meets its intended goal, such as increasing the abundance of fished species. The …