Special feature: Demystifying fundamental theories in ecology DOI
Rachel M. Germain, Sebastian J. Schreiber

The American Naturalist, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 205(3), P. 280 - 284

Published: Oct. 31, 2024

AbstractAs scientists, our collective goal is to make scientific progress in the pursuit of an absolute truth about nature universe, through a feedback loop observation, theory, and experimentation. What if major limit not science itself but rather how broadly ideas can be understood? In this introduction special feature, we highlight four articles, each tasked with demystifying key theory ecology for general audience, focus on aspects that have been misunderstood, misapplied, or underappreciated some important way. These theories are metabolic competition based consumer-resource models, mechanisms coexistence fluctuating environments, metapopulation dynamics. We point out ways which article applied best practices accessible communication as well challenges might arise (and potential solutions journals authors) when attempting publish articles deeper emphasis explanation fundamentals than traditional provide.

Language: Английский

Partitioning the Impacts of Spatial-Temporal Variation in Demography and Dispersal on Metapopulation Growth Rates DOI
Sebastian J. Schreiber

The American Naturalist, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 205(2), P. 149 - 169

Published: Oct. 7, 2024

AbstractSpatial-temporal variation in environmental conditions is ubiquitous nature. This simultaneously impacts survival, reproduction, and movement of individuals thereby the rate at which metapopulations grow. Using tools stochastic demography, metapopulation growth decomposed into five components corresponding to temporal, spatial, spatial-temporal fitness spatial covariation dispersal fitness. While temporal always reduces rate, all other sources can either increase or reduce rate. Increases occur by reducing generating a positive fitness-density covariance where tend concentrate higher-quality patches. For example, autocorrelations variability generate this for less dispersive populations but decrease it highly (e.g., migratory species). Negative have opposite effects. Positive covariances between future fitness, on short long timescales, rates. These arise unexpected ways. win-stay, lose-shift strategy negatively autocorrelated environments that exceed negative covariances. decomposition provides way quantify relative importance fundamental persistence.

Language: Английский

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Special feature: Demystifying fundamental theories in ecology DOI
Rachel M. Germain, Sebastian J. Schreiber

The American Naturalist, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 205(3), P. 280 - 284

Published: Oct. 31, 2024

AbstractAs scientists, our collective goal is to make scientific progress in the pursuit of an absolute truth about nature universe, through a feedback loop observation, theory, and experimentation. What if major limit not science itself but rather how broadly ideas can be understood? In this introduction special feature, we highlight four articles, each tasked with demystifying key theory ecology for general audience, focus on aspects that have been misunderstood, misapplied, or underappreciated some important way. These theories are metabolic competition based consumer-resource models, mechanisms coexistence fluctuating environments, metapopulation dynamics. We point out ways which article applied best practices accessible communication as well challenges might arise (and potential solutions journals authors) when attempting publish articles deeper emphasis explanation fundamentals than traditional provide.

Language: Английский

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