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Finding The Sweet Spot: What Levels Of Larval Mortality Lead To Compensation Or Overcompensation In Adult Production?, Zoey R. Neale, Steven A. Juliano
Finding The Sweet Spot: What Levels Of Larval Mortality Lead To Compensation Or Overcompensation In Adult Production?, Zoey R. Neale, Steven A. Juliano
Faculty Publications – Biological Sciences
Extrinsic mortality impinging on negative density-dependent populations can result in no change in the number of survivors (compensation) or an increase (overcompensation) by releasing the population from density-dependent effects on survivorship. The relationship between the level of extrinsic mortality (i.e., percentage of mortality) and the level and likelihood of overcompensation is theoretically important, but rarely investigated. We tested the hypothesis that overcompensation occurs below a threshold value of extrinsic mortality that is related to density-dependent mortality rate and that additive extrinsic mortality occurs above this threshold. This hypothesis predicts that survivorship vs. extrinsic mortality will (1) be best described by …