Search Results - "Araya‐Ajoy, Yimen G."

Robustness of linear mixed‐effects models to violations of distributional assumptions by Schielzeth, Holger, Dingemanse, Niels J., Nakagawa, Shinichi, Westneat, David F., Allegue, Hassen, Teplitsky, Céline, Réale, Denis, Dochtermann, Ned A., Garamszegi, László Zsolt, Araya‐Ajoy, Yimen G., Sutherland, Chris

“…Linear mixed‐effects models are powerful tools for analysing complex datasets with repeated or clustered observations, a common data structure in ecology and…”
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Life‐history evolution under fluctuating density‐dependent selection and the adaptive alignment of pace‐of‐life syndromes by Wright, Jonathan, Bolstad, Geir H., Araya‐Ajoy, Yimen G., Dingemanse, Niels J.

“…ABSTRACT We present a novel perspective on life‐history evolution that combines recent theoretical advances in fluctuating density‐dependent selection with the…”
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Most published selection gradients are underestimated: Why this is and how to fix it by Dingemanse, Niels Jeroen, Araya-Ajoy, Yimen G., Westneat, David F.

“…Ecologists and evolutionary biologists routinely estimate selection gradients. Most researchers seek to quantify selection on individual phenotypes, regardless…”
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Pathways to social evolution and their evolutionary feedbacks by Araya-Ajoy, Yimen G., Westneat, David F., Wright, Jonathan

“…In the context of social evolution, the ecological drivers of selection are the phenotypes of other individuals. The social environment can thus evolve,…”
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Individual variation in age‐dependent reproduction: Fast explorers live fast but senesce young? by Dingemanse, Niels J., Moiron, Maria, Araya‐Ajoy, Yimen G., Mouchet, Alexia, Abbey‐Lee, Robin N., Patrick, Samantha

“…Adaptive integration of life history and behaviour is expected to result in variation in the pace‐of‐life. Previous work focused on whether ‘risky’ phenotypes…”
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An approach to estimate short‐term, long‐term and reaction norm repeatability by Araya‐Ajoy, Yimen G., Mathot, Kimberley J., Dingemanse, Niels J., O'Hara, Robert B.

“…Summary Evolutionary ecologists increasingly study reaction norms that are expressed repeatedly within the same individual's lifetime. For example, foragers…”
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Phenotypic evolution in stochastic environments: The contribution of frequency- and density-dependent selection by Engen, Steinar, Wright, Jonathan, Araya-Ajoy, Yimen G., Sæther, Bernt-Erik

“…Understanding how environmental variation affects phenotypic evolution requires models based on ecologically realistic assumptions that include variation in…”
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Collision between biological process and statistical analysis revealed by mean centring by Westneat, David F., Araya‐Ajoy, Yimen G., Allegue, Hassen, Class, Barbara, Dingemanse, Niels, Dochtermann, Ned A., Garamszegi, László Zsolt, Martin, Julien G. A., Nakagawa, Shinichi, Réale, Denis, Schielzeth, Holger, Phillimore, Albert

“…Animal ecologists often collect hierarchically structured data and analyse these with linear mixed‐effects models. Specific complications arise when the effect…”
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Variation in generation time reveals density regulation as an important driver of pace of life in a bird metapopulation by Araya‐Ajoy, Yimen G., Niskanen, Alina K., Froy, Hannah, Ranke, Peter Sjolte, Kvalnes, Thomas, Rønning, Bernt, Le Pepke, Michael, Jensen, Henrik, Ringsby, Thor Harald, Sæther, Bernt‐Erik, Wright, Jonathan, Gaillard, Jean‐Michel

“…Generation time determines the pace of key demographic and evolutionary processes. Quantified as the weighted mean age at reproduction, it can be studied as a…”
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Estimation of additive genetic variance when there are gene–environment correlations: Pitfalls, solutions and unexplored questions by Munar‐Delgado, Gabriel, Araya‐Ajoy, Yimen G., Edelaar, Pim

“…Estimating the genetic variation underpinning a trait is crucial to understanding and predicting its evolution. A key statistical tool to estimate this…”
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Characterizing morphological (co)variation using structural equation models: Body size, allometric relationships and evolvability in a house sparrow metapopulation by Araya-Ajoy, Yimen G., Ranke, Peter Sjolte, Kvalnes, Thomas, Rønning, Bernt, Holand, Håkon, Myhre, Ane Marlene, Pärn, Henrik, Jensen, Henrik, Ringsby, Thor Harald, Sæther, Bernt-Erik, Wright, Jonathan

“…Body size plays a key role in the ecology and evolution of all organisms. Therefore, quantifying the sources of morphological (co)variation, dependent and…”
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Does metabolic rate predict risk-taking behaviour? A field experiment in a wild passerine bird by Mathot, Kimberley J., Nicolaus, Marion, Araya-Ajoy, Yimen G., Dingemanse, Niels J., Kempenaers, Bart

“…Summary Individuals often show consistent differences in risk‐taking behaviours; behaviours that increase resource acquisition at the expense of an increased…”
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Spatial structure and dispersal dynamics in a house sparrow metapopulation by Ranke, Peter S., Araya‐Ajoy, Yimen G., Ringsby, Thor Harald, Pärn, Henrik, Rønning, Bernt, Jensen, Henrik, Wright, Jonathan, Sæther, Bernt‐Erik

“…The effects of spatial structure on metapopulation dynamics depend upon the interaction between local population dynamics and dispersal, and how this…”
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Drivers of long‐term invertebrate community stability in changing Swedish lakes by Fried‐Petersen, Hannah B., Araya‐Ajoy, Yimen G., Futter, Martyn N., Angeler, David G.

“…Research on ecosystem stability has had a strong focus on local systems. However, environmental change often occurs slowly at broad spatial scales, which…”
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Describing posterior distributions of variance components: Problems and the use of null distributions to aid interpretation by Pick, Joel L., Kasper, Claudia, Allegue, Hassen, Dingemanse, Niels J., Dochtermann, Ned A., Laskowski, Kate L., Lima, Marcos R., Schielzeth, Holger, Westneat, David F., Wright, Jonathan, Araya‐Ajoy, Yimen G.

“…Abstract Assessing the biological relevance of variance components estimated using Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC)‐based mixed‐effects models is not…”
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Dispersal in a house sparrow metapopulation: An integrative case study of genetic assignment calibrated with ecological data and pedigree information by Saatoglu, Dilan, Niskanen, Alina K., Kuismin, Markku, Ranke, Peter S., Hagen, Ingerid J., Araya‐Ajoy, Yimen G., Kvalnes, Thomas, Pärn, Henrik, Rønning, Bernt, Ringsby, Thor Harald, Sæther, Bernt‐Erik, Husby, Arild, Sillanpää, Mikko J., Jensen, Henrik

“…Dispersal has a crucial role determining ecoevolutionary dynamics through both gene flow and population size regulation. However, to study dispersal and its…”
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Long‐distance dispersal in the short‐distance dispersing house sparrow (Passer domesticus) by Ranke, Peter S., Pepke, Michael L., Søraker, Jørgen S., David, Gabriel, Araya‐Ajoy, Yimen G., Wright, Jonathan, Nafstad, Ådne M., Rønning, Bernt, Pärn, Henrik, Ringsby, Thor Harald, Jensen, Henrik, Sæther, Bernt‐Erik

“…The house sparrow (Passer domesticus) is a small passerine known to be highly sedentary. Throughout a 30‐year capture–mark–recapture study, we have obtained…”
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Causes and consequences of variation in early‐life telomere length in a bird metapopulation by Pepke, Michael Le, Kvalnes, Thomas, Ranke, Peter Sjolte, Araya‐Ajoy, Yimen G., Wright, Jonathan, Sæther, Bernt‐Erik, Jensen, Henrik, Ringsby, Thor Harald

“…Environmental conditions during early‐life development can have lasting effects shaping individual heterogeneity in fitness and fitness‐related traits. The…”
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Statistical Quantification of Individual Differences (SQuID): an educational and statistical tool for understanding multilevel phenotypic data in linear mixed models by Allegue, Hassen, Araya‐Ajoy, Yimen G., Dingemanse, Niels J., Dochtermann, Ned A., Garamszegi, László Z., Nakagawa, Shinichi, Réale, Denis, Schielzeth, Holger, Westneat, David F., Hadfield, Jarrod

“…Summary Phenotypic variation exists in and at all levels of biological organization: variation exists among species, among‐individuals within‐populations, and…”
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Repeatability, heritability, and age-dependence of seasonal plasticity in aggressiveness in a wild passerine bird by Araya-Ajoy, Yimen G., Dingemanse, Niels J.

“…1. Labile characters allow individuals to flexibly adjust their phenotype to changes in environmental conditions. There is growing evidence that individuals…”
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