Samuel J. L. Gascoigne

This paper introduces S-elasticity, a second-order elasticity measure to analyze nonlinear fitness responses to vital rate perturbations in ecology and evolution.

The paper examines how inflation variability and persistence affect demographic buffering in humans across 32 countries, finding increased stochastic sensitivity but no adverse effects on buffering capacity.

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 uses Bayesian models to show that population responses to environmental stochasticity vary widely and are driven by survival-reproduction trade-offs and aridity.

The paper integrates repeat LiDAR data with Integral Projection Models (IPMs) to model forest dynamics, revealing distinct growth responses of eucalypt trees to environmental factors.

The paper simulates the Y-model to quantify phenotypic trade-offs, finding that mean allocation strategy, not mean resource acquisition, influences trade-offs, and that within-individual allocation dependence amplifies these effects.

This study investigates the effects of paternal age and sperm storage duration on offspring survival and reproduction in Drosophila, finding no age effect but a significant impact of sperm storage duration.

The paper tests the social buffering hypothesis across 66 animal species, finding social species have lower demographic sensitivity to environmental variability, especially in unpredictable climates.

This study shows that reproductive decline in old polygynous males is due to seminal fluid limitations, not sperm number, using Drosophila melanogaster.

The paper models short- and long-term responses of grassland functional groups to precipitation extremes using stage-structured community models and pseudospectral theory.

The paper examines phenological shifts in European vegetation and herbivorous insects over 34 years, finding that 61.2% have become asynchronous, with vegetation advancing faster than insects.

This study shows that hypoxia reduces growth in Drosophila larvae through a systemic endocrine mechanism involving ecdysone and the insulin/IGF-signaling pathway.