FN Archimer Export Format PT J TI Accounting for stochasticity in demographic compensation along the elevational range of an alpine plant BT AF ANDRELLO, Marco De Villemereuil, Pierre Carboni, Marta Busson, Delphine Fortin, MArie-Josée Gaggiotti, Oscar E Till-Bottraud, Irene AS 1:1;2:2;3:3;4:4;5:5;6:6;7:7; FF 1:;2:;3:;4:;5:;6:;7:; C1 MARBEC, Univ Montpellier, CNRS, IFREMER, IRD, Sète, France Institut de Systématique, Évolution, Biodiversité (ISYEB), École Pratique des Hautes Études PSL, MNHN, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, Université des Antilles, Paris, France Dipartimento di Scienze, Università Degli Studi di Roma Tre, viale Marconi 446, 00146 Roma, Italy Laboratoire d’Ecologie Alpine (LECA), Université Grenoble Alpes, F-38000 Grenoble, France; CNRS, LECA, F-38000 Grenoble, France Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto, Toronto, M5S 3B2, Canada Scottish Oceans Institute, University of St Andrews, Fife, KY16 8LB, United Kingdom. Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS, GEOLAB, F-63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France C2 IRD, FRANCE EPHE, FRANCE UNIV ROMA, ITALY UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES, FRANCE UNIV TORONTO, CANADA UNIV ST ANDREWS, UK UNIV CLERMONT AUVERGNE, FRANCE UM MARBEC IN WOS Cotutelle UMR copubli-france copubli-europe copubli-univ-france copubli-int-hors-europe IF 1.88 TC 4 UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00611/72286/71100.pdf LA English DT Article DE ;Arabis alpina;Brassicaceae;elasticity;elevation;population dynamics;stochasticity AB Demographic compensation arises when vital rates change in opposite directions across populations,  buffering the variation in population growth rates, and is a mechanism often invoked to explain the  stability of species geographic ranges. However, studies on demographic compensation have disregarded  the effects of temporal variation in vital rates and their temporal correlations, despite theoretical  evidence that stochastic dynamics can affect population persistence in temporally varying environments.  We carried out a seven-year-long demographic study on the perennial plant Arabis alpina across six  populations encompassing most of its elevational range. We discovered demographic compensation in  the form of negative correlations between the means of plant vital rates, but also between their  temporal coefficients of variation, correlations and elasticities. Even if their contribution to demographic  compensation was small, this highlights a previously overlooked, but potentially important, role of  stochastic processes in stabilizing population dynamics at range margins. PY 2020 PD MAY SO Ecology Letters SN 1461-023X PU Wiley / Blackwell VL 23 IS 5 UT 000521388100001 BP 870 EP 880 DI 10.1111/ele.13488 ID 72286 ER EF