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Many bumblebee species are suffering from the effects of habitat fragmentation and population isolation. In some cases, populations have lost genetic diversity due to genetic drift and it is possible they are now at heightened risk of extinction. Inbreeding may be particularly c…

Comparative demography aims to expose the influence of fundamental life-history variables on the variability in species’ population structure. Classical approaches in comparative demography rely upon dissecting a stage transition matrix for populations and investigating the effe…