Data from: Pluck or luck: does trait variation or chance drive variation in lifetime reproductive success? ...

• Main Authors: Snyder, Robin E., Ellner, Stephen P.
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: Dryad 2017
• Subjects: Ecology: population; Rissa tridactyla; Pseudoroegneria spicata; rissa tridactyla
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.pd959; https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.pd959

While there has been extensive interest in how intraspecific trait variation affects ecological processes, outcomes are highly variable even when individuals are identical: some are lucky while others are not. Trait variation is therefore only important if it adds substantially to the variability produced by luck. We ask when trait variation has a substantial effect on variability in lifetime reproductive success (LRS), using two approaches: 1) we partition the variation in LRS into contributions from luck and trait variation; 2) we ask what can be inferred about an individual's traits, and with what certainty, given their observed LRS. In theoretical stage- and size-structured models, and two empirical case studies, we find that luck usually dominates the variance of LRS. Even when individuals differ substantially in ways that affect expected LRS, unless the effects of luck are substantially reduced (e.g. low variability in reproductive lifespan or in annual fecundity), most variance in lifetime outcomes is ... : READMEage2SizePars.RData file used by IdahoIPMFunctions.Rage2SizePars.csvBaselineParameterSets.RdataData file used by SizeQualityFunctionsPlot.R and SizeQualityVarPartition.RgrowPars.csvData file used by IdahoIPMFunctions.RIdahoIPMFunctions.RDefines functions needed by IdahoIPMLifeCycleStats.R and IdahoWinnerTraits2Plots.RIdahoIPMLifeCycleStats.RCode to generate Figs. 5 and 6IdahoWinnerTraits2Plots.RCode to generate Figs. 7 and 8KittiwakeMatrices.RData used by KittiwakeWinnerTraitsFecSurv3.R. Demographic data are taken from Steiner, U. K., S. Tuljapurkar, and S. H. Orzack. 2010. Dynamic heterogeneity and life history variability in the kittiwake. Journal of Animal Ecology 79:436–444 and Cam, E., W. A. Link, E. G. Cooch, J.-Y. Monnat, and E. Danchin. 2002. Individual covariation in life-history traits: seeing the trees despite the forest. The American Naturalist 159:96–105.KittiwakeWinnerTraitsFecSurv3.RCode for generating Fig. 4MegamatrixFunctions.RDefines functions needed by KittiwakeWinnerTraitsFecSurv3.R ...