We review commonly used population definitions under both the ecological paradigm
(which emphasizes demographic cohesion) and the evolutionary paradigm (which …

Ecologists have long searched for structures and processes that impart stability in nature. In
particular, food web ecology has held promise in tackling this issue. Empirical patterns in …

In this paper we extend the classical susceptible-infected-susceptible epidemic model from
a deterministic framework to a stochastic one and formulate it as a stochastic differential …

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 …

The synchronization of the dynamics of spatially subdivided populations is of both
fundamental and applied interest in population biology. Based on theoretical studies …

Predicting the effects of an expected climatic change requires estimates and modeling of
stochastic factors as well as density-dependent effects in the population dynamics. In a …

The world is spatially autocorrelated. Both abiotic and biotic properties are more similar
among neighboring than distant locations, and their temporal co‐fluctuations also decrease …

It is widely acknowledged that the analysis of comparative data from related species should
be performed taking into account their phylogenetic relationships. We introduce a new …

We model metapopulation dynamics in finite networks of discrete habitat patches with given
areas and spatial locations. We define and analyze two simple and ecologically intuitive …

Based on a marginal value approach, we derive a nonlinear expression for evolutionarily
stable (ES) dispersal rates in a metapopulation with global dispersal. For the general case of …