Individual-based models are an exciting and widely used new tool for ecology. These
computational models allow scientists to explore the mechanisms through which population …

Critical evaluation of the adequacy of ecological models is urgently needed to enhance their
utility in developing theory and enabling environmental managers and policymakers to …

Gabriel et al. proposed solutions to two paradoxes raised by Levins and Ginzburg in the
logistic equation. The resolution of these two paradoxes lies in the distinguishing of two …

Arid ecosystems are liable to undergo sudden discontinuous transitions from a vegetated to
a desert state as a result of human pressure and climate change. A predictive framework …

A first-order moment closure, the mean-field assumption that organisms encounter one
another in proportion to their spatial average densities, lies at the heart of much theoretical …

Theoretical considerations suggest that extinction in dispersal‐limited populations is
necessarily a threshold‐like process that is analogous to a critical phase transition in …

Summary 1 Understanding and predicting the form of species distributions, or occupancy
patterns, is fundamental to macroecology and is dependent on the identification of scaling …

Virulence management can be defined as that set of policies that not only aims to minimize
the short-term impact of parasites on their host population (eg, incidence, mortality, and …

An investigation using the Stepping Out model of early hominin dispersal out of Africa is
presented here. The late arrival of early hominins into Europe, as deduced from the fossil …

In fire‐prone ecosystems, many plants possess traits that enhance their relative flammability
and ecologists have suggested increased flammability could result from natural selection. To …