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  • Understanding population regulation mechanisms in open systems with complex life cycles is challenging.
  • Density dependence is a key factor, but its influence varies across life stages and environments.

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  • To investigate the role of larval density dependence in regulating open populations of a stream insect.
  • To assess the impact of density manipulation on multiple life-history stages over two years.

Main Methods:

  • Field manipulation of aquatic invertebrate larval density.
  • Monitoring of population abundance across larval, adult emergence, and egg-laying stages over two years.
  • Analysis of density-dependent effects and resource availability.

Main Results:

  • Larval density manipulation had minimal impact on emergent adult numbers and subsequent egg mass production.
  • Adult dispersal stochasticity likely buffers early-life density effects in open populations.
  • Density-dependent regulation was observed in larval stages, primarily driven by resource availability.

Conclusions:

  • Population dynamics are governed by multiple interacting mechanisms operating at different life-history stages.
  • Resource availability is a critical factor for larval density dependence.
  • Understanding these complex dynamics is crucial for predicting population persistence under environmental change.