Life-history predicts global population responses to the weather in the terrestrial mammals

摘要: With the looming threat of abrupt ecological disruption due to a changing climate, predicting which species are most vulnerable environmental change is critical. The life-history promising candidate for explaining differences in climate-change responses, but we now need data linking population change, weather and explore these predictions. Here, use long-term abundance records from 157 terrestrial mammals investigate link between annual growth rates. Overall, found no consistent effect temperature or precipitation anomalies on rates, there was variability responses populations within species. Crucially, however, long-lived with smaller litter sizes had reduced absolute magnitude compared their shorter-living counterparts larger litters. These results highlight role species-level driving environment.