S. D. Tuljapurkar

The paper develops a unified matrix framework to analyze both pulse and press disturbances in populations, showing how transient dynamics influence long-term fitness and demographic responses.

The paper introduces a framework to quantify the effects of environmental factors, population structure, and demographic rates on demographic buffering in plant species.

This study analyzes the robustness of the Lee-Carter mortality model by examining sensitivity and uncertainty, finding it resilient to random perturbations and short-term changes.

The paper analyzes structured population models across taxa to explore how selective forces act on non-genetic, non-environmental life course variation, finding it is neither clearly neutral nor selected for or against.

The paper develops size-structured models to explore how density dependence influences body size evolution, showing that gigantism or dwarfism depends on population maturity proportions and developmental trajectories.

The paper analyzes damping time across 600+ species and finds it scales with generation time, independent of demographic dispersion, suggesting slow life-history species are more vulnerable to disturbances.

The paper examines how lifetime reproductive success (LRS) distributions vary in different environments using Roe deer data and stochastic models.