Temporal correlations among demographic parameters are ubiquitous but highly variable across species

Temporal correlations among demographic parameters are ubiquitous but highly variable across species

Rémi Fay^1*, Sandra Hamel², Martijn van de Pol^3,4, Jean-Michel Gaillard⁵, Nigel G. Yoccoz⁶, Paul Acker¹, Matthieu Authier⁷, Benjamin Larue⁸, Christie Le Coeur⁹, Kaitlin R. Macdonald¹⁰, Alex Nicol-Harper^11,12, Christophe Barbraud¹³, Christophe Bonenfant⁵, Dirk H. Van Vuren¹⁴, Emmanuelle Cam¹⁵, Karine Delord¹³, Marlène Gamelon^1,5, Maria Moiron^16,17, Fanie Pelletier⁸, Jay Rotella¹⁰, Celine Teplitsky¹⁶, Marcel E. Visser⁴, Caitlin P. Wells¹⁸, Nathaniel T. Wheelwright¹⁹, Stéphanie Jenouvrier^12,13†, Bernt-Erik Sæther^1†

1 Centre for Biodiversity Dynamics, Department of Biology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway

2 Département de biologie, Université Laval, Québec City, QC, Canada

3 College of Science and Engineering, James Cook University, Townsville, QLD 4811, Australia

4 Department of Animal Ecology, Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO‐KNAW), Wageningen, the Netherlands

5 Laboratoire de Biométrie et Biologie Évolutive, CNRS, Unité Mixte de Recherche (UMR) 5558, Université Lyon 1, Université de Lyon, Villeurbanne, France

6 Department of Arctic and Marine Biology, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway

7 Observatoire PELAGIS, UMS-CNRS 3462, Université de la Rochelle, La Rochelle, France

8 Département de Biologie, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada

9 Department of Biosciences, Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis (CEES), University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

10 Department of Ecology, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, USA

11 School of Ocean and Earth Science, National Oceanography Centre, University of Southampton Waterfront Campus, European Way, Southampton, UK

12 Biology Department, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, USA

13 Centre d'Etudes Biologiques de Chizé, UMR 7372, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 79360 Villiers en Bois, France 13 LEMAR,

14 Department of Wildlife, Fish, and Conservation Biology, University of California, Davis, CA, USA

15 LEMAR, CNRS, IRD, Ifremer, Université de Bretagne Occidentale, Plouzané, France

16 CEFE, Univ Montpellier, CNRS, EPHE, IRD, Montpellier, France

17 Institute of Avian Research, Wilhelmshaven, Germany

18 Fish, Wildlife and Conservation Biology Department, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA

19 Department of Biology, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine 04011, USA