Concepts
5 concepts
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population sensitivity
Scaled measure of how population growth rate responds to changes in environmental drivers
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reproduction ratio
The average number of offspring produced by a typical individual during its life, calculated as the product of offspring number and survival probability
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nest density
Number of nests per unit area, calculated by dividing number of nests in each habitat by total area
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inbreeding coefficient
Measure of the level of inbreeding within a population, with values close to 1.0 indicating high levels of inbreeding
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social complexity
Demographic metric based on information theory quantifying the variation in social group composition across age and sex classes