Ecological theory has been dominated by a focus on long-term or asymptotic behavior as a
way to understand natural systems. Yet experiments are done on much shorter timescales …

Can physics be an appropriate framework for the understanding of ecological science? Most
ecologists would probably agree that there is little relation between the complexity of natural …

Many cancers resist therapeutic intervention. This is fundamentally related to intratumor
heterogeneity: multiple cell populations, each with different phenotypic signatures, coexist …

Analyses of transient dynamics are critical to understanding infectious disease transmission
and persistence. Identifying and predicting transients across scales, from within-host to …

Many real ecological systems show sudden changes in behavior, phenomena sometimes
categorized as regime shifts in the literature. The relative importance of exogenous versus …

Preserving and restoring biodiversity is becoming a great challenge as we face a world
where planetary boundaries will likely be crossed over the following decades. Such …

Studies of transient population dynamics have largely focused on temporal changes in
dynamical behaviour, such as the transition between periods of stability and instability. This …

This paper examines the short-term or transient dynamics of SIR infectious disease models
in patch environments. We employ reactivity of an equilibrium and amplification rates …

The impact of space on ecosystem dynamics has been a matter of debate since the dawn of
theoretical ecology. Several studies have revealed that space usually involves an increase …

There is an ongoing debate about the applicability of chaotic and nonlinear models to
ecological systems. Initial introduction of chaotic population models to the ecological …