This blog post is provided by Jean-Dominique Lebreton and Madan K. Oli and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the article “Reproductive value as a key concept in ecology and evolutionary biology”, which was recently published in Journal of Animal Ecology. In their study, Lebreton, Oli and colleagues break down the meaning of reproductive value, an idea first proposed by R. A. Fisher almost a century ago to … Continue reading The Value of Reproductive Value
Today the paper that introduces the COMADRE Animal Matrix Database was published in Journal of Animal Ecology (Salguero-Gómez et al. 2016). This is an international effort in collaboration with ca. 10 other institutions. Our main goal was to replicate the impact that its sister database, the COMPADRE Plant Matrix Database (Salguero-Gómez et al. 2015) has had for plant ecology and evolution, but in the rich animal kingdom. Open access to the database itself can be gained from the COMADRE website.
A blog from the Journal of Animal Ecology
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A blog from the Journal of Animal Ecology
