Using Insights From Life History Theory to Forecast Global Population Responses to Climate Change
Explore a comprehensive lecture on utilizing life history theory to predict global population responses to climate change. Delve into the maturation of scientific fields, the significance of life history traits, and their role in determining organism capabilities and limitations. Examine the taxonomic limitations of life history theory and investigate the factors shaping life history strategies. Analyze the predictive power of this framework, focusing on complex mammalian demographic responses to climate drivers and the greater diversity of life history traits in tropical regions. Investigate forecasts of life history strategies in temporally autocorrelated environments and learn how these traits predict responses to extreme climatic events. Discover a framework for classifying life history strategies and understand the concept of reproductive senescence as a third axis in this analysis.