The goal of this research area is to develop and apply models to describe dynamics of populations in time and space in fluctuating environments.

Main questions

• How does the age-specific variation in the stochastic contributions to the population growth rate differ along the slow-fast continuum of life history variation?
• To what extent can age-specific variation in the contribution of different age-classes to the total density dependence affecting the population dynamics, be explained by the position of the species along the slow-fast continuum of life history variation?
• How can spatial patterns in the population dynamics be predicted from the species’ position along the slow-fast continuum of life history variation?
• How will expected changes in climate affect spatiotemporal variation in population fluctuations?

The research is based on theoretical developments, studies of wild populations of species such as moose, reindeer, house sparrow and other birds, and from the daphnia lab. The research area consists of three research groups.