Age, sex, density, winter weather, and population crashes in Soay sheep.

By T. Coulson, E. A. Catchpole, S. Albon, Byron J. T. Morgan, Josephine M. Pemberton, T. H. Clutton-Brock, M. Crawley, Bryan T. Grenfell. Science, 2001

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Subfields: Ecology, Genetics

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The demographic consequences of releasing a population of red deer from culling (2004, positive): “However, because the age and sex structure of vertebrate populations can ﬂuctuate independently of current total population size (Coulson et al. 2001), we estimated sensitivities and elasticities numerically using the observed population age and sex structure.”
A comparative study of Calanus finmarchicus mortality patterns at five localities in the North Atlantic (2004, background): “Density-dependent mortality can interact with both the mean and variability of climate state to give non-linear population responses ( Coulson et al., 2001 ).”
From climate change to population change: the need to consider annual life cycles (2006, background): “…this is the assumption underlying basically all empirical studies where the effect of climate is introduced as a log-linear covariate in time-series models (e.g. Forchhammer et al., 1998; Jonzén et al., 2002; but see Stenseth et al., 1999 and Coulson et al., 2001 for two interesting exceptions).”
Reproductive senescence in female Soay sheep: variation across traits and contributions of individual ageing and selective disappearance (2013, methodology): “The vast majority of mortality occurs over winter, which may be marked by low food availability, high population density, poor weather and high gastrointestinal parasite prevalence (Coulson et al. 2001).”
Cohort effects and deer population dynamics (2003, neutral): “In most deer species, populations are strongly agestructured (Gaillard et al., 2000a; Coulson et al., 2001), Résumé : Chez les Cervidés, la variabilité des traits d’histoire de vie observée entre individus d’une même population a le plus souvent été expliquée d’une part par des différences entre…”
REVIEW: Predictive ecology in a changing world (2015, positive): “dynamics along with life-history and ecophysiological trait data (Coulson et al. 2001), while predicting the pace of adaptive evolution and the speciation and extinction dynamics of whole clades requires micro- and macro-evo-”
Accounting for uncertainty in ecological analysis: the strengths and limitations of hierarchical statistical modeling. (2009, background): “…Clark and Bjornstad 2004, Gelfand et al. 2004, Maunder 2004, Clark et al. 2005, Thomas et al. 2005), quantifying the importance of interactions (Coulson et al. 2001, Cam et al. 2002, Clark et al. 2003, 2004, LaDeau and Clark 2006, Mohan et al. 2007), prediction (Beckage and Platt 2003, Clark…”
Quantitative genetics of growth and cryptic evolution of body size in an island population (2007, background): “However, population density is known to have a major influence on the biology of this system (Coulson et al. 2001) and, while fluctuating dramatically, the total population of Hirta shows an overall increase from 1985 to 2005 (slope of 31.8 sheep/year, P = 0.025).”
LONG LIVING AND REPRODUCTION SKIPPING IN THE FAT DORMOUSE (2003, background): “Indeed, reproductive failure in female ungulates has been associated with high population density and difficulty in regaining body mass after lactation (Clutton-Brock and Albon 1989, Sæther 1997, Coulson et al. 2001).”
Environmental variability and fisheries: what can models do? (2008, background): “…ways to environmental changes but also populations of the same species do so in different localities (Skud 1982; Alheit and Bernal 1993; Francis et al. 1998; Hare and Mantua 2000; Alheit and Ñiquen 2004) as do the different age-classes of populations (Coulson et al. 2001; Ottersen et al. 2006).”