%0 Journal Article
%A Varas Enríquez, Pablo José
%A Van Daalen, Silke
%A Caswell, Hal
%+ Department of Human Behavior Ecology and Culture, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Max Planck Society
Max Planck Research Group Birth Rites - Cultures of Reproduction, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Max Planck Society
The Leipzig School of Human Origins (IMPRS), Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Max Planck Society
%T Individual stochasticity in the life history strategies of animals and plants : 
%G eng
%U https://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-000B-2740-1
%R 10.1371/journal.pone.0273407
%7 2022-09-23
%D 2022
%8 23.09.2022
%* Review method: peer-reviewed
%X The life histories of organisms are expressed as rates of development, reproduction, and<br>survival. However, individuals may experience differential outcomes for the same set of<br>rates. Such individual stochasticity generates variance around familiar mean measures of<br>life history traits, such as life expectancy and the reproductive number R0. By writing life<br>cycles as Markov chains, we calculate variance and other indices of variability for longevity,<br>lifetime reproductive output (LRO), age at offspring production, and age at maturity for 83<br>animal and 332 plant populations from the COMADRE and COMPADRE matrix databases. We<br>find that the magnitude within and variability between populations in variance indices in<br>LRO, especially, are surprisingly high. We furthermore use principal components analysis to<br>assess how the inclusion of variance indices of different demographic outcomes affects life<br>history constraints. We find that these indices, to a similar or greater degree than the mean,<br>explain the variation in life history strategies among plants and animals.
%J PLoS One
%O PLoS One
%V 17
%] e0273407
%I Public Library of Science
%C San Francisco, CA
%@ 1932-6203