Project

ComPADRe III and ComADRe demographic databases

Conducted by Roberto Salguero-Gomez; Owen R. Jones, James W. Vaupel, Annette Baudisch, Alexander Scheuerlein, Dalia Amor Conde Ovando, Fernando Colchero; in Collaboration with Judy Che-Castaldo (National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center, USA), Hal Caswell (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution / MPIDR, USA)

ComPADRe III (Comparative Plant & Algae Demographic Research) and ComADRE (Comparative Animal Demographic Research)are two sister databases that contain demographic information in the form of projection matrices and integral projection models for over 850 plants and over 1000 animal species from published research. The databases also contain taxonomic, ecological and biogeographic covariates. This wealth of data empowers us to address broad ecological and evolutionary questions. The goal of this project is to synthesize and digitalize this literature, explore the evolution of senescence across the tree of life, and ultimately make the data publicly available to encourage more comparative demographic studies.Detailed description

Research keywords: Ageing, Mortality and Longevity; Biodemography; Data and Surveys

This is a joint project with the Laboratory:

• Modeling the Evolution of Aging Description

Figures & Graphs

Figure 1: Number of plant (ComPADre III) and animal species (ComADRe) for which discrete projection matrices have been published as a function of heir year of publication. Integral projection models (blue) for over 50 species already exist.

 

Figure 2: Distribution of discrete projection matrices in the plant kingdom as a function of the country where the field site took place. There are obvious geographic gaps in our demographic knowledge of the tree of life around the planet.