Ecological Archives E090-014-A3

William P. Brown and Roland R. Roth. 2009. Age-specific reproduction and survival of individually marked Wood Thrushes, Hylocichla mustelina. Ecology 90:218–229.

Appendix C. A composite cohort life table of all Wood Thrushes at University of Delaware Woods, 1974–2004.

TABLE C1. A composite cohort life table of all Wood Thrushes at UDW, 1974–2004. Methodology and nomenclature (except genetic value, see text) follow Gotelli (1995). See text for construction of data set and explanation of terms.


 

Age

 

Fertility

 

Survivorship

Survival

Mean lifetime

Reproductive

Genetic

     

schedule

 

schedule

probability

remaining

value

value

                   
 

(days for nest stages,

 

(average

 

(proportion of

(probability

(years)

(number of offspring

(number of recruits

 

 years for adults)

 

fledglings

 

original cohort

an individual of

 

remaining to be

to be produced

     

per year)

 

surviving to

age x survives

 

born to individuals

by individuals

         

start of age x)

to age x+1)

 

of age x)

of age x)

                   
 
 

x

S(x)

b(x)

SD

l(x)

g(x)

e(x)

v(x)

F(x)

 
                   
                   

Nest

Eggs (0–2)

3592

   

1.000

0.89

     
stage
                 

 

Incubation (3–15)

3207

   

0.893

0.75

     
                   
 

Hatchlings-Nestlings (16–29)

2401

   

0.668

0.68

     
                   
 

Fledglings (30–304)

1642

   

0.457

0.33

     
                   
                   

Adults

1

540

2.4

1.9

0.150

0.46

0.91

4.05

0.17

(including                  

immigrants)

2

249

3.1

2.0

0.069

0.65

1.16

5.42

0.24

                   

 

3

161

3.4

2.1

0.045

0.58

1.00

4.73

0.18

                   
 

4

94

3.5

2.3

0.026

0.64

0.89

4.27

0.14

                   
 

5

60

3.6

2.2

0.017

0.53

0.63

2.85

0.08

                   
 

6

32

3.2

2.1

0.009

0.47

0.45

1.95

0.06

                   
 

7

15

3.2

1.9

0.004

0.47

0.23

0.83

0.02

                   
 

8

7

1.7

1.7

0.002

0.00

0.00

0.00

0.00


                   
                   
 

R0 (net reproductive rate) =

0.92

             
                   
 

G (generation time, years) =

2.39

             
                   
 

corrected r =

-0.035

             

 

LITERATURE CITED

Gotelli, N. J. 1995. A primer of ecology. Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, Massachusetts, USA.


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