Koen J. van Benthem

TL;DR: The glmmTMB package fits many types of GLMMs and extensions, including models with continuously distributed responses, but here the authors focus on count responses and its ability to estimate the Conway-Maxwell-Poisson distribution parameterized by the mean is unique.

TL;DR: It is concluded that no single framework provides the ‘true’ contributions of evolution, plasticity and demography, instead, different research questions require different frameworks.

TL;DR: The growing evidence that density-based generic early-warning metrics—against their intended use—might not be universally suited to identify populations that are about to collapse is supported.

TL;DR: Food availability, acting through reproduction, was the main driver of changes in both short- and long-term population dynamics of the African striped mouse, and buffered the population against environmental change, and even adverse climate change scenarios were predicted to have little effect on population persistence despite leading to overall lower abundances.

TL;DR: It is concluded that body size dynamics in the small mammal population that exhibits non-cyclic, large-scale fluctuations in abundance do not drive the observed population dynamics.