Moving forward in circles: challenges and opportunities in modelling population cycles

F Barraquand, S Louca, KC Abbott, CA Cobbold… - Ecology …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Population cycling is a widespread phenomenon, observed across a multitude of taxa in
both laboratory and natural conditions. Historically, the theory associated with population …

How environmental drivers of spatial synchrony interact

DC Reuman, MCN Castorani, KC Cavanaugh… - …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Spatial synchrony, the tendency for populations across space to show correlated
fluctuations, is a fundamental feature of population dynamics, linked to central topics of …

The geography of spatial synchrony

JA Walter, LW Sheppard, TL Anderson… - Ecology …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Spatial synchrony, defined as correlated temporal fluctuations among populations, is a
fundamental feature of population dynamics, but many aspects of synchrony remain poorly …

The geography of metapopulation synchrony in dendritic river networks

S Larsen, L Comte, A Filipa Filipe, MJ Fortin… - Ecology …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Dendritic habitats, such as river ecosystems, promote the persistence of species by
favouring spatial asynchronous dynamics among branches. Yet, our understanding of how …

Changes in large-scale climate alter spatial synchrony of aphid pests

LW Sheppard, JR Bell, R Harrington… - Nature Climate …, 2016 - nature.com
Spatial synchrony, the tendency of distant populations to fluctuate similarly, is a major
concern in ecology,,,,,,,. Except in special circumstances,, researchers historically had …

Phase-locking and environmental fluctuations generate synchrony in a predator–prey community

DA Vasseur, JW Fox - Nature, 2009 - nature.com
Spatially synchronized fluctuations in system state are common in physical and biological
systems ranging from individual atoms to species as diverse as viruses, insects and …

Geographical variation in the spatial synchrony of a forest-defoliating insect: isolation of environmental and spatial drivers

KJ Haynes, ON Bjørnstad… - Proceedings of the …, 2013 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Despite the pervasiveness of spatial synchrony of population fluctuations in virtually every
taxon, it remains difficult to disentangle its underlying mechanisms, such as environmental …

Synchrony in dynamics of giant kelp forests is driven by both local recruitment and regional environmental controls

KC Cavanaugh, BE Kendall, DA Siegel, DC Reed… - Ecology, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Populations of many species display spatially synchronous fluctuations in abundance.
Synchrony is most commonly attributed to three processes: factors that influence recruitment …

A global geography of synchrony for terrestrial vegetation

EJ Defriez, DC Reuman - Global Ecology and Biogeography, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Previous work demonstrated a pronounced geography of synchrony for marine
phytoplankton and used that geography to infer statistical environmental determinants of …

Differential effects of energy and mass influx on the landscape synchrony of lake ecosystems

RJ Vogt, JA Rusak, A Patoine, PR Leavitt - Ecology, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Interannual variation of 45 annually resolved time series of environmental, limnological, and
biotic parameters was quantified (1994–2009) in six lakes within 52 000 km2 to test the …