Despite being recognized as a promoter of diversity and a condition for local coexistence
decades ago, the importance of intraspecific variance has been neglected over time in …

Environmental changes are expected to alter both the distribution and the abundance of
organisms. A disproportionate amount of past work has focused on distribution only, either …

Schedules of survival, growth and reproduction are key life‐history traits. Data on how these
traits vary among species and populations are fundamental to our understanding of the …

Ecology Letters (2011) 14: 1–8 Abstract Matrix projection models are among the most widely
used tools in plant ecology. However, the way in which plant ecologists use and interpret …

As major consumers of plants, insect herbivores have strong potential to influence long‐term
patterns of plant abundance and community structure. Nonetheless, remarkably few …

Most species are exposed to significant environmental gradients across their ranges, but
vital rates (survival, growth, reproduction and recruitment) need not respond in the same …

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

There is much in common between the aim and tools of the quantitative geneticist and the
comparative biologist. One of the most interesting statistical tools of the quantitative genetics …

Temporal autocorrelation in demographic processes is an important aspect of population
dynamics, but a comprehensive examination of its effects on different life‐history strategies …

Correlative species distribution models are based on the observed relationship between
species' occurrence and macroclimate or other environmental variables. In climates …