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Youngjai Park, Takashi Shimada, Seung‐Woo Son, Hye Jin Park
It is well-known that interactions between species determine the population composition in an ecosystem. Conventional studies have focused on fixed population structures to reveal how interactions shape population compositions. However, interaction structures are not fixed, but change over time due to invasions. Thus…
Ikumi Kobayashi
Ecosystems, which are intricate amalgams of biological communities and their surrounding environments, continually evolve under the influence of their myriad interactions. The world is currently facing intensifying environmental fluctuations. Understanding general trends in ecosystem transformations in response to…
Ned J H Wontner, Matthew Spencer
The super-organismal view of ecosystems has largely been superseded by the individualistic view. One consequence of the dominance of the individualistic view is that many modern ecologists treat ecosystems as nothing more than vectors of relative abundances, ignoring the potentially important idea that an understanding…
Maximilien Cosme, Colin Thomas, Cédric Gaucherel, Tomas Veloz
Ecosystem modeling is a complex and multidisciplinary modeling problem which emerged in the 1950s. It takes advantage of the computational turn in sciences to better understand anthropogenic impacts and improve ecosystem management. For that purpose, ecosystem simulation models based on difference or differential…
Claes Strannegård, Michał Palak, Niklas Engsner, Alice Stocco + 2 more
Twin models of natural ecosystems hold great promise for informing real-world decisions on sustainable land use and biodiversity conservation. However, existing simulations of animal behavior often rely on manually crafted rules, limiting their scalability and practical utility. Here, we present a flexible and scalable…
Emanuel A. Fronhofer, Dov Corenblit, Jhelam N. Deshpande, Lynn Govaert + 4 more
'Lynn Govaert' 'Philippe Huneman' 'Frédérique Viard' 'Philippe Jarne' 'Sara Puijalon'] - 1. ISEM, Universit´e de Montpellier, CNRS, IRD, EPHE, Montpellier, France - 2. Universit´e Clermont Auvergne, CNRS, GEOLAB F-63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France - 3. CNRS, Laboratoire ´ecologie fonctionnelle et environnement…
Yong‐Guan Zhu, Dong Zhu, Matthias C. Rillig, Yunfeng Yang + 5 more
'Haiyan Chu' 'Qing‐Lin Chen' 'Josep Penuelas' 'Hui‐Ling Cui' 'Michael Gillings'] Title: Abstract The microbiome contributes to multiple ecosystem functions and services through its interactions with a complex environment and other organisms. To date, however, most microbiome studies have been carried out on individual…
Robin Delabays, Philippe Jacquod
We investigate species-rich mathematical models of ecosystems. Much of the existing literature focuses on the properties of equilibrium fixed points, in particular their stability and feasibility. Here we emphasize the emergence of limit cycles following Hopf bifurcations tuned by the variability of interspecies…
Laurie Anne Wojcik, Ruben Ceulemans, Ursula Gaedke
Biodiversity decline causes a loss of functional diversity, which threatens ecosystems through a dangerous feedback loop: This loss may hamper ecosystems’ ability to buffer environmental changes, leading to further biodiversity losses. In this context, the increasing frequency of human-induced excessive loading of…
Kazufumi Hosoda, Shigeto Seno, Rikuto Kamiura, Naomi Murakami + 2 more
'Michio Kondoh' 'Toshiyuki Nakajima'] The increase in ecosystem biodiversity can be perceived as one of the universal processes converting energy into information across a wide range of living systems. This study delves into the dynamics of living systems, highlighting the distinction between ex post adaptation…
Tânia Tomé, Mário J. de Oliveira
We investigate the thermodynamics as well as the population dynamics of ecosystems based on a stochastic approach in which the number of individuals of the several species of the ecosystem are treated as stochastic variables. The several species are connected by feeding relationships that are understood as…
C. Gaucherel, S. Fayolle, R. Savelli, O. Philippine + 2 more
Trophic interaction networks are notoriously difficult to understand and to diagnose. Such ecological networks welcome numerous feedbacks between species and populations and are not frozen at all, as soon as we observe them over a long enough term. These topological changes may be triggered by natural forcings (e.g.…
Lingzi Wang
Understanding the generation and maintenance of our ecosystem and biodiversity is of utmost importance as we are currently seeing the disturbances in the long-term formed ecological and evolutionary systems and also facing the loss of diversity across the globe. In particular, the ecological structures, the coevolution…
Marco Tulio Angulo, Yitong Liu, Dan Morris, Serguei Saavedra
Ecosystem degradation is accelerating, threatening biodiversity and human economies. Quantifying this degradation relative to a reference baseline remains a key challenge. Yet, this quantification is essential to provide the necessary resources to regenerate ecosystems. We address this challenge by studying the…
Wenping Cui, Robert Marsland, Pankaj Mehta
Ecosystems are among the most interesting and well-studied examples of self-organized complex systems. Community ecology, the study of how species interact with each other and the environment, has a rich tradition. Over the last few years, there has been a growing theoretical and experimental interest in these problems…
Samuel A. Cushman, Matteo Convertino
Darwin proposed that the capacity of organisms to produce more offspring that can be supported by the environment would lead to a struggle for existence, and individuals that are most fit for survival and reproduction would be selected through natural selection. Ecology is the science that studies the interaction…
Adam T. Clark, Lauren G. Shoemaker, Jean‐François Arnoldi, György Barabás + 6 more
Coexistence is simultaneously one of the most fundamental concepts of ecology, and one of the most difficult to define. A particular challenge is that, despite a well-developed body of research, several different schools of thought have developed over the past century, leading to multiple independent, and largely…
Sarah A. Vollert, Christopher Drovandi, Matthew Adams
ecological transients: methods and implications Authors: ['Sarah A. Vollert' 'Christopher Drovandi' 'Matthew Adams'] Representing ecosystems at equilibrium has been foundational for building ecological theories, forecasting species populations and planning conservation actions. The equilibrium "balance of nature" ideal…
Yong Zeng, Wei Yang, Yanwei Zhao
Interactions between species and detritus in aquatic ecosystems involve unassimilated food, non-predator mortality, and complex trophic relationships, making it challenging to quantify interaction strengths. This study utilized classic and revised Lotka-Volterra equations, combined with the food web of Baiyangdian…
S. Kumar, Preet Mishra, R. K. Brojen Singh
Control studies in ecological models of networks involving invasive plants can offer tangible management strategies. Framing control policies to tackle problems posed by invasive plants on indigenous plant diversity under the sustainable developmental goals framework is the main motivation of this paper. Based on the…
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Conservation chemistry is an emerging discipline focused on preventing the loss of biodiversity through molecular-level insight and intervention. As the planet enters a mass extinction event – driven by pollution, habitat loss, invasive species, climate change, overharvesting, and disease – chemical sciences offer…
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Nitrogen fixation plays a critical role in enhancing carbon sequestration, particularly in terrestrial ecosystems where plant productivity and microbial processes are tightly linked to nitrogen availability. Biological nitrogen fixation (BNF), carried out by free-living and symbiotic microorganisms such as Rhizobium…
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Heterotrophic protists can be considered the dark matter of microbial communities in engineered water systems. They are ubiquitous and ecologically significant, yet remain largely overlooked. Although a growing body of research demonstrates their pivotal roles (e.g., predation, symbiosis, and nutrient cycling) in…
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Time series data of atmospheric CO2 levels is highly autocorrelated with multiple timescale variations. In recent years, the data shows a persistent increase in these levels. To understand this persistence, we use enzyme activity and biological growth as analogous phenomena and draw comparisons with the atmospheric CO2…