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Rate-induced tipping can trigger plankton blooms Theor. Ecol. (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Anna Vanselow, Lukas Halekotte, Pinaki Pal, Sebastian Wieczorek, Ulrike Feudel
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Quantifying the effects of sensory stress on trophic cascades Theor. Ecol. (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-01-29
Abstract Predators mediate the strength of trophic cascades indirectly by decreasing the number of prey consuming a basal resource and by altering prey responses that dictate prey foraging. The strength of these indirect effects further depends on abiotic factors. For example, attributes of the environment, such as turbulent flows in aquatic habitats that disrupt spatial information available from
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Preferential cannibalism as a key stabilizing mechanism of intraguild predation systems with trophic polymorphic predators Theor. Ecol. (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-01-17 Clara A. Woodie, Kurt E. Anderson
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Transient dynamics mask the resilience of coral reefs Theor. Ecol. (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2023-12-20 Karlo Hock, Alan Hastings, Christopher Doropoulos, Russell C. Babcock, Juan C. Ortiz, Angus Thompson, Peter J. Mumby
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Temporal variability of carabid beetles as a function of geography, environment, and species Theor. Ecol. (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2023-12-14 Tad A. Dallas, Cleber Ten Caten, Lauren A. Holian
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An energetic approach to the evolution of growth curve plasticity Theor. Ecol. (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2023-11-29 Jasper C. Croll, Tobias van Kooten, André M. de Roos
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Local interactions affect spread of resource in a consumer-resource system with group defense Theor. Ecol. (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2023-09-30 Jorge Arroyo-Esquivel, Alan Hastings, Marissa L. Baskett
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Coupling strength between omnivory loops and their one-species-delete subloops drives real food web stability Theor. Ecol. (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2023-08-21 Jianfeng Feng, Shengpeng Li, Xiaoxiao Li, Yueming Jiang, Ruyue Wang, Xianhao Meng, Wei Yang, Tao Sun, Peter C. de Ruiter, Yongtang Shi, Nils Chr. Stenseth
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Universal ontogenetic growth without fitted parameters: implications for life history invariants and population growth Theor. Ecol. (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2023-08-09 Andrés Escala
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Feasibility in MacArthur’s consumer-resource model Theor. Ecol. (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2023-07-22 Andrea Aparicio, Tong Wang, Serguei Saavedra, Yang-Yu Liu
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An assessment of the contact rates between individuals when movement is modelled by a correlated random walk Theor. Ecol. (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2023-07-19 Joseph D. Bailey
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Speciation in a MacArthur model predicts growth, stability, and adaptation in ecosystem dynamics Theor. Ecol. (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2023-06-29 Elena Bellavere, Christian H. S. Hamster, Joshua A. Dijksman
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Spatial epidemiology model can explain the seasonal dynamics of infectious disease Cyprinid herpesvirus 3 (CyHV-3) by thermoregulation behavior of the host, common carp (Cyprinus carpio) Theor. Ecol. (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2023-06-20 Takeshi Miki, Hiroki Yamanaka, Atsushi Sogabe, Koji Omori, Yasuhisa Saito, Toshifumi Minamoto, Kimiko Uchii, Mie N. Honjo, Alata A. Suzuki, Yukihiro Kohmatsu, Zen’ichiro Kawabata
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Demographic signals of population decline and time to extinction in a seasonal, density-dependent model Theor. Ecol. (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2023-06-13 Joseph B. Burant, D. Ryan Norris
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Coexistence and alternative stable states in the bioeconomics of fisheries and aquaculture Theor. Ecol. (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2023-05-30 Melissa Orobko, Péter K. Molnár, Martin Krkošek
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The effect of non-linear competitive interactions on quantifying niche and fitness differences Theor. Ecol. (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2023-05-10 Jurg W. Spaak, Remi Millet, Po-Ju Ke, Andrew D. Letten, Frederik De Laender
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Functional diversity increases the resistance of a tritrophic food web to environmental changes Theor. Ecol. (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2023-05-09 George Adje, Laurie A. Wojcik, Ursula Gaedke
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Algal blooms as a reactive dynamic response to seasonal perturbation in an experimental system Theor. Ecol. (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2023-05-09 John M. Fryxell, Gustavo S. Betini
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Analyzing the effect of restrictions on the COVID-19 outbreak for some US states Theor. Ecol. (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2023-04-25 Mahir Demir, Ibrahim H. Aslan, Suzanne Lenhart
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Coexistence in spatiotemporally fluctuating environments Theor. Ecol. (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2023-04-22 Evan C. Johnson, Alan Hastings
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Thermal asymmetries influence effects of warming on stage and size-dependent predator–prey interactions Theor. Ecol. (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2023-04-03 Adam Pepi, Tracie Hayes, Kelsey Lyberger
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Habitat distribution affects connectivity and population size in migratory networks Theor. Ecol. (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2023-03-30 Swati Patel, Caz M. Taylor
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Nutrient enrichment favors grazing selectivity and nutritional mismatch in a plankton community Theor. Ecol. (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2023-03-16 Pedro Branco
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The maximum entropy principle to predict forager spatial distributions: an alternate perspective for movement ecology Theor. Ecol. (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2023-03-10 Pau Capera-Aragones, Rebecca C. Tyson, Eric Foxall
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Effect of temporal and spatial noise colour in insect outbreak frequency Theor. Ecol. (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2023-03-10 Octavio Augusto Bruzzone, Tomás Righetti, Ana Claudia Faltlhauser, María Belén Aguirre, Alejandro Joaquin Sosa
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When host populations move north, but disease moves south: Counter-intuitive impacts of climate change on disease spread Theor. Ecol. (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2023-01-09 E. Joe Moran, Maria M. Martignoni, Nicolas Lecomte, Patrick Leighton, Amy Hurford
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Potential ecosystem regime shift resulting from elevated CO2 and inhibition of macroalgal recruitment by turf algae Theor. Ecol. (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2023-01-03 Mayumi Seto, Ben P. Harvey, Shigeki Wada, Sylvain Agostini
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Sea-level rise can reverse the conditions that promote the spread of ecosystem engineers Theor. Ecol. (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2022-12-06 Robin R. Decker, Alan Hastings
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Nonspreading solutions and patch formation in an integro-difference model with a strong Allee effect and overcompensation Theor. Ecol. (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2022-10-01 Garrett Otto, William F. Fagan, Bingtuan Li
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When growing pains and sick days collide: infectious disease can stabilize host population oscillations caused by stage structure Theor. Ecol. (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2022-09-30 Margaret W. Simon, Michael Barfield, Robert D. Holt
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The combined effects of dispersal and herbivores on stable states in coral reefs Theor. Ecol. (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2022-09-28 Ariel Greiner, Emily S. Darling, Marie-Josée Fortin, Martin Krkošek
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Complex ecological communities and the emergence of island species-area relationships Theor. Ecol. (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2022-09-23 Ankit Vikrant, Martin Nilsson Jacobi
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What’s in a resource gradient? Comparing alternative cues for foraging in dynamic environments via movement, perception, and memory Theor. Ecol. (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2022-08-23 William F. Fagan, Cole Saborio, Tyler D. Hoffman, Eliezer Gurarie, Robert Stephen Cantrell, Chris Cosner
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Estimation of the present status of the species based on the theoretical bounds of environmental noise intensity: An illustration through a big abundance data and simulation Theor. Ecol. (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2022-07-22 Ayan Paul, Nabakumar Ghosh, Sabyasachi Bhattacharya
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Intraspecific variation promotes coexistence under competition for essential resources Theor. Ecol. (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2022-07-15 Erica M. Holdridge, David A. Vasseur
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How mutation shapes the rate of population spread in the presence of a mate-finding Allee effect Theor. Ecol. (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2022-07-11 Frithjof Lutscher, Lea Popovic, Allison K. Shaw
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Size-dependent fitness trade-offs of foraging in the presence of predators for prey with different growth patterns Theor. Ecol. (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2022-06-07 Kathryn J. Montovan, Natasha Tigreros, Jennifer S. Thaler
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Ideal free flows of optimal foragers: Vertical migrations in the ocean Theor. Ecol. (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2022-05-31 Uffe Høgsbro Thygesen, Maksim Mazuryn
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A general mathematical model for coevolutionary dynamics of mutualisms with partner discrimination Theor. Ecol. (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2022-05-20 Hideo Ezoe
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Herbivore population dynamics in response to plant allocation strategies Theor. Ecol. (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2022-05-13 Fang Ji, Christopher R. Stieha, Karen C. Abbott
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Effects of predator novelty on intraguild predation communities with adaptive prey defense Theor. Ecol. (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2022-04-20 Kurt E. Ingeman, Mark Novak
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Diverse perspectives from diverse scholars are vital for theoretical biology Theor. Ecol. (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2022-03-26 Allison K. Shaw
Science is based on studying some aspects of the world while holding others constant. The assumptions of what can and cannot be ignored implicitly shape our understanding of the world around us. This truth is particularly evident when studying biology through mathematical models, where one must explicitly state assumptions during the process of model building. Although we often recognize that all models
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The regulating effect of growth plasticity on the dynamics of structured populations Theor. Ecol. (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2022-03-23 Jasper C. Croll, Andé M. de Roos
Plasticity is the extent to which life history processes such as growth and reproduction depend on the environment. Plasticity in individual growth varies widely between taxa. Nonetheless, little is known about the effect of plasticity in individual growth on the ecological dynamics of populations. In this article, we analyse a physiologically structured population model of a consumer population in
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Effects of noise correlation and imperfect data sampling on indicators of critical slowing down Theor. Ecol. (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2022-02-20 Taranjot Kaur, Partha Sharathi Dutta
Critical slowing down-based early warning signals (EWSs) are well-known indicators that precede an approaching collapse in complex systems. To date, the majority of studies on the predictability of critical transitions consider systems perturbed with temporally uncorrelated noise. In contrast, here we study catastrophic and non-catastrophic transitions, and the performance of associated EWSs in systems
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Suppressing evolution of antibiotic resistance through environmental switching Theor. Ecol. (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2022-02-10 Bryce Morsky, Dervis Can Vural
Ecology and evolution under changing environments are important in many subfields of biology with implications for medicine. Here, we explore an example: the consequences of fluctuating environments on the emergence of antibiotic resistance, which is an immense and growing problem. Typically, high doses of antibiotics are employed to eliminate the infection quickly and minimize the time under which
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Host plant limitation of butterflies in highly fragmented landscapes Theor. Ecol. (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2022-02-08 Elizabeth E. Crone, Cheryl B. Schultz
Insect herbivores can be limited by host plants in two ways: density-dependent competition for food resources or density-independent search time limitation. Our understanding of density-dependent host plant limitation is relatively well developed and well integrated into conservation plans for at-risk insects. Search time limitation, a density-independent process, is much less well developed. Here
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Climate warming and dispersal strategies determine species persistence in a metacommunity Theor. Ecol. (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2022-02-04 Arzoo Narang, Partha Sharathi Dutta
Dispersal is crucial in governing species response toward climate warming. Previous studies suggest that intermediate and density-dependent dispersal enables the functioning of a metacommunity, stabilizing populations at local and regional scales. Here, we consider a spatial ecological model with temperature-dependent traits to elucidate dispersal effects in stabilizing population dynamics under climate
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Analysis of the invasion of a city by Aedes aegypti via mathematical models and Bayesian statistics Theor. Ecol. (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2022-01-26 Octavio Augusto Bruzzone, María Eugenia Utgés
We analysed data from the invasion of a city by Aedes aegypti by using a series of models based on Fisher’s reaction–diffusion equation with Richard’s growth model and Bayesian statistics. The model that best explains the invasion of the city was defined through a step-by-step process of model selection based on a series of candidate models. As explanatory variables, we used the effect of urbanization
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Coexistence patterns and diversity in a trait-based metacommunity on an environmental gradient Theor. Ecol. (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2022-01-10 Mohammed, Mozzamil, Blasius, Bernd, Ryabov, Alexey
The dynamics of trait-based metacommunities have attracted much attention, but not much is known about how dispersal and spatial environmental variability mutually interact with each other to drive coexistence patterns and diversity. Here, we present a spatially explicit model of competition for two essential resources in a metacommunity on a one-dimensional environmental gradient. We find that both
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Evolutionary rescue can prevent rate-induced tipping Theor. Ecol. (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2021-12-21 Vanselow, Anna, Halekotte, Lukas, Feudel, Ulrike
The transformation of ecosystems proceeds at unprecedented rates. Recent studies suggest that high rates of environmental change can cause rate-induced tipping. In ecological models, the associated rate-induced critical transition manifests during transient dynamics in which populations drop to dangerously low densities. In this work, we study how indirect evolutionary rescue—due to the rapid evolution
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Transients in ecology: stochasticity, management, and understanding. Theor. Ecol. (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2021-12-08 Karen C Abbott,Kim Cuddington,Alan Hastings
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Mathematical modeling shows that ball-rolling dung beetles can use dances to avoid competition Theor. Ecol. (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2021-11-06 Yin, Zhanyuan, Zinn-Björkman, Leif
Ball-rolling dung beetles shape a portion of dung into a ball and roll it away from the dung pile for later burial and consumption. These beetles perform dances (rotations and pauses) atop their dung balls in order to choose an initial rolling direction and to correct their rolling direction (reorient). Previous mathematical modeling showed that dung beetles can use reorientation to move away from
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Examining the generality of the biphasic transition from niche-structured to immigration-structured communities Theor. Ecol. (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2021-11-06 Chisholm, Ryan A., Fung, Tak
Theoretical and empirical studies suggest that as immigration increases, ecological communities transition from a niche-structured regime to an immigration-structured regime. The niche-structured regime is the domain of classic niche models; the immigration-structured regime is the domain of island biogeography and related theories. A recent unified model predicted a biphasic species–area relationship
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Selection and biodiversity change Theor. Ecol. (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2021-07-31 Godsoe, William, Eisen, Katherine E., Stanton, Daniel, Sirianni, Katherine M.
There is a great need to understand how and why biodiversity, which we define as the variety of organisms found in a given place, changes over time. Current estimates suggest strikingly slow change in traditional measures of biodiversity. These estimates seem to contradict rapid shifts in the abundance of individual species and have led to a rethinking of the mechanisms shaping biodiversity. Conceptual
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Should we account for mesozooplankton reproduction and ontogenetic growth in biogeochemical modeling? Theor. Ecol. (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2021-07-13 Corentin Clerc, Olivier Aumont, Laurent Bopp
Mesozooplankton play a key role in marine ecosystems as they modulate the transfer of energy from phytoplankton to large marine organisms. In addition, they directly influence the oceanic cycles of carbon and nutrients through vertical migrations, fecal pellet production, respiration, and excretion. Mesozooplankton are mainly made up of metazoans, which undergo important size changes during their life
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Noise can create or erase long transient dynamics Theor. Ecol. (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2021-07-09 J. R. Reimer, J. Arroyo-Esquivel, J. Jiang, H. R. Scharf, E. M. Wolkovich, K. Zhu, C. Boettiger
Recent theoretical work has highlighted several mechanisms giving rise to so-called long transient dynamics. These long transients tantalizingly appear to replicate dynamics seen in real systems—with one critical difference: ecological data is noisy, a reality theoretical work often ignores. In general, stochasticity is known to have important consequences: it can qualitatively alter model dynamics
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Fire mitigates bark beetle outbreaks in serotinous forests Theor. Ecol. (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2021-07-08 Peter C. Jentsch, Chris T. Bauch, Madhur Anand
Bark beetle outbreaks and forest fires have imposed severe ecological damage and caused billions of dollars in lost resources in recent decades. The impact of such combined disturbances is projected to become more severe, especially as climate change takes its toll on forest ecosystems in the coming years. Here, we investigate the impact of multiple disturbances in a demographically heterogeneous tree
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Be different to be better: the effect of personality on optimal foraging with incomplete knowledge Theor. Ecol. (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2021-06-25 Poppy M. Jeffries, Samantha C. Patrick, Jonathan R. Potts
Many animal populations include a diversity of personalities, and these personalities are often linked to foraging strategy. However, it is not always clear why populations should evolve to have this diversity. Indeed, optimal foraging theory typically seeks out a single optimal strategy for individuals in a population. So why do we, in fact, see a variety of strategies existing in a single population
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Habitat loss causes long extinction transients in small trophic chains Theor. Ecol. (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2021-06-22 Blai Vidiella, Ernest Fontich, Sergi Valverde, Josep Sardanyés
Transients in ecology are extremely important since they determine how equilibria are approached. The debate on the dynamic stability of ecosystems has been largely focused on equilibrium states. However, since ecosystems are constantly changing due to climate conditions or to perturbations driven by the climate crisis or anthropogenic actions (habitat destruction, deforestation, or defaunation), it