Data from: Modeling effects of environmental change on wolf population dynamics, trait evolution, and life history ...

• Main Authors: Coulson, Tim, MacNulty, Daniel R., Stahler, Daniel R., VonHoldt, Bridgett, Wayne, Robert K., Smith, Douglas W.
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: Dryad 2011
• Subjects: Population biology; simulation model; present; Canis lupus
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.bp23483h; https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.bp23483h

Environmental change has been observed to generate simultaneous responses in population dynamics, life history, gene frequencies, and morphology in a number of species. But how common are such eco-evolutionary responses to environmental change likely to be? Are they inevitable, or do they require a specific type of change? Can we accurately predict eco-evolutionary responses? We address these questions using theory and data from the study of Yellowstone wolves. We show that environmental change is expected to generate eco-evolutionary change, that changes in the average environment will affect wolves to a greater extent than changes in how variable it is, and that accurate prediction of the consequences of environmental change will probably prove elusive. ... : wolf RDataReadme file explains the structure of the RData workspace filewolf.RDATAsimulate and perturbR code to run simulations ...