The causes of biodiversity change are of great scientific interest and central to policy efforts
aimed at meeting biodiversity targets. Changes in species diversity and high rates of …

More than 60% of human infectious diseases are caused by pathogens shared with wild or
domestic animals. Zoonotic disease organisms include those that are endemic in human …

A plethora of different theories, models, and concepts make up the field of community
ecology. Amid this vast body of work, is it possible to build one general theory of ecological …

Environmental temperature has systematic effects on rates of species interactions, primarily
through its influence on organismal physiology. We present a mechanistic model for the …

Predation is a central feature of ecological communities. Most theoretical and empirical
studies of predation focus on the consequences of predators consuming their prey …

Stochasticity is a core component of ecology, as it underlies key processes that structure and
create variability in nature. Despite its fundamental importance in ecological systems, the …

Contaminants such as petroleum hydrocarbons, heavy metals and pesticides can cause
direct toxic effects when released into aquatic environments. Sensitive species may be …

In this work, a fractional predator-prey model with the harvesting rate is considered. Besides
the existence and uniqueness of the solution to the model, local stability and global stability …

Table of Contents: 1. Metacommunities: a framework for large-scale community
ecology/Marcel Holyoak, Mathew A. Leibold, Nicolas M. Mouquet, Robert D. Holt and Martha …

We investigate the complex behavior and chaos control in a discrete-time prey-predator
model. Taking into account the Leslie-Gower prey-predator model, we propose a discrete …