Laboratory
Evolutionary Biodemography
The projects of this laboratory are arranged in the following
Research Areas
- Mortality and Fertility Trajectories Across the Tree of Life
- Method Development
- Database Development
- Human Evolutionary Demography
- Conservation Demography
Mortality and Fertility Trajectories Across the Tree of LifeDescription
Projects
- Evolutionary Biodemography and the Age-Specific Mortality of Hydra Project details
- The Biodemography of Eusociality Project details
- Effects of Climate Change on the Demography of Desert Plants Project details
- Aging in Basal Metazoans – A Biodemographic Approach (Dissertation) Project details
- The Role of Sexual Selection in the Evolution of Aging Project details
- Evolution of Ontogenescence Project details
- The Economy of Ants: Maintenance Investment in a Eusocial Insect Project details
- Demography of the Long-Lived Ocean Quahog Arctica islandica Project details
- The Influence of Age and Environment on Mortality and Fertility Schedules Project details
- Sexual versus Asexual Reproduction: Comparative Analysis of Fitness and Adaptation Potential Between Closely Related Sexual and Asexual Species Project details
- Interspecific Variation in Rates of Aging: The Role of Environmental and Genetic Factors Project details
- The Evolutionary Landscape of Pace and Shape of Mortality Trajectories Project details
Method DevelopmentDescription
Projects
- Explaining Patterns of Age-Specific Performance Project details
- Sensitivity Analysis of Demographic Models Project details
- Age-Stage Classified Models Project details
- Individual Stochasticity in Lifetime Accumulation of Demographic Rewards Project details
- Quality Assessment of Published Mortality Data Project details
- Developing Bayesian Methods to Handle Messy Wild Data Project details
Database DevelopmentDescription
Projects
- DATLife – The Demography of Aging Across the Tree of Life Database Project details
- ComPADRe III and ComADRe demographic databases Project details
Human Evolutionary DemographyDescription
Projects
- Sex and Survival – Mortality Differences in the Past Project details
- Evolution of Post-Reproductive Lifespan Project details
- Human Mortality Rate Improvement in Evolutionary Context Project details
- Economic- and Resource-Based Constraints on the Life Histories of Industrial Human Populations Project details
- Epidemiology on the Rate of Aging (Dissertation) Project details
Conservation DemographyDescription
Projects
- Species and Their Environment Project details
- New Analyses of Demographic Stochasticity Project details
- Demographic Responses to Climate Change Project details
- Intensively Managed Populations and Conservation Prioritization Project details

