%0 Journal Article %1 rotella_evaluating_2012 %A Rotella, Jay J %A Link, William A %A Chambert, Thierry %A Stauffer, Glenn E %A Garrott, Robert A %D 2012 %J Journal of Animal Ecology %K Leptonychotes degradation, demography, dynamics environmental mammals, marine pinnipeds, population weddellii, %N 1 %P 162--173 %R 10.1111/j.1365-2656.2011.01902.x %T Evaluating the demographic buffering hypothesis with vital rates estimated for Weddell seals from 30 years of mark–recapture data %U http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2656.2011.01902.x/abstract %V 81 %X 1. Life-history theory predicts that those vital rates that make larger contributions to population growth rate ought to be more strongly buffered against environmental variability than are those that are less important. Despite the importance of the theory for predicting demographic responses to changes in the environment, it is not yet known how pervasive demographic buffering is in animal populations because the validity of most existing studies has been called into question because of methodological deficiencies.

@article{rotella_evaluating_2012, abstract = {1. Life-history theory predicts that those vital rates that make larger contributions to population growth rate ought to be more strongly buffered against environmental variability than are those that are less important. Despite the importance of the theory for predicting demographic responses to changes in the environment, it is not yet known how pervasive demographic buffering is in animal populations because the validity of most existing studies has been called into question because of methodological deficiencies.}, added-at = {2017-01-09T13:57:26.000+0100}, author = {Rotella, Jay J and Link, William A and Chambert, Thierry and Stauffer, Glenn E and Garrott, Robert A}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2ac49aac35dfaf59785954221c9cd21e4/yourwelcome}, doi = {10.1111/j.1365-2656.2011.01902.x}, interhash = {2b14f95fdcd2c56aeef6e2b4a3b9295f}, intrahash = {ac49aac35dfaf59785954221c9cd21e4}, issn = {1365-2656}, journal = {Journal of Animal Ecology}, keywords = {Leptonychotes degradation, demography, dynamics environmental mammals, marine pinnipeds, population weddellii,}, language = {en}, month = jan, number = 1, pages = {162--173}, timestamp = {2017-01-09T14:01:11.000+0100}, title = {Evaluating the demographic buffering hypothesis with vital rates estimated for {Weddell} seals from 30 years of mark–recapture data}, url = {http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2656.2011.01902.x/abstract}, urldate = {2012-02-26}, volume = 81, year = 2012 }