Demographic basis of spatially structured fluctuations in a threespine stickleback metapopulation

• Published in: The American Naturalist
• Main Authors: Phillips, Joseph S., Einarsson, Árni, Strickland, Kasha, Ives, Anthony R., Kristjánsson, Bjarni K., Räsänen, Katja
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: University of Chicago Press 2023
• Subjects: demographic transience; Gasterosteus aculeatus; Mývatn; population cycles; spatial synchrony; state-space model; Iceland
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1086/722741

Uncovering the demographic basis of population fluctuations is a central goal of population biology. This is particularly challenging for spatially structured populations, which require disentangling synchrony in demographic rates from coupling via movement between locations. In this study, we fit a...