Network approaches to ecological questions have been increasingly used, particularly in
recent decades. The abstraction of ecological systems–such as communities–through …

Rhythmic behavior represents one of the most striking and ubiquitous manifestations of
functional evolution for a wide class of natural and man-made systems. The emergence of …

Synchronization processes in populations of locally interacting elements are the focus of
intense research in physical, biological, chemical, technological and social systems. The …

Plants and animals activate defenses after perceiving pathogen-associated molecular
patterns (PAMPs) such as bacterial flagellin. In Arabidopsis, perception of flagellin increases …

▪ Abstract Spatial synchrony refers to coincident changes in the abundance or other time-
varying characteristics of geographically disjunct populations. This phenomenon has been …

Deleterious effects of habitat fragmentation and benefits of connecting fragments could be
significantly underestimated because changes in colonization and extinction rates that drive …

Marine ecosystems provide essential services to humans, yet these services have been
diminished, and their future sustainability endangered, by human patterns of exploitation …

Using the abundance and distribution of small mammals at 26 sites in an Atlantic forest
landscape, we investigated how species abundance and alpha and beta diversity are …

Summary 1 The spread and intensification of agriculture are recognized as two of the most
important global threats to wildlife. There are clear links between agricultural change and …

This book is designed to be a practical study in infectious disease dynamics. It offers an easy-
to-follow implementation and analysis of mathematical epidemiology. It focuses on recent …