We shall examine the impact of Charles S. Elton's 1924 article on periodic fluctuations in
animal populations on the development of modern population ecology. We argue that his …

A defining hypothesis of theoretical ecology during the past century has been that
population fluctuations might largely be explained by relatively low‐dimensional, nonlinear …

Models are useful when they are compared with data. Whether this comparison should be
qualitative or quantitative depends on circumstances, but in many cases some statistical …

Although individual species persist within a web of interactions with other species, data are
usually gathered only from the focal species itself. We ask whether evidence of a species' …

Here we present, to the authors' knowledge for the very first time for a small marsupial, a
thorough analysis of the demography and population dynamics of the mouse opossum …

Predators and prey are usually heterogeneously distributed in space so that the ability of the
predators to respond to the distribution of their prey may have a profound influence on the …

The fluctuations exhibited by natural populations have fascinated ecologists for the last
eighty years. However, a vigorous debate between different schools of population ecologists …

1. Time-series data from a twice-replicated population experiment (consisting of a seed
beetle (host), Callosobruchus chinensis, and two parasitoids, Anisopteromalus calandrae …

Abundances of 12 laboratory populations of the greenbottle blowfly (Lucilia sericata) were
recorded every two days for 776 d, with separate counts for larvae, pupae, and adults. Half …

Las fluctuaciones exhibidas por las poblaciones naturales han fascinado a los ecólogos
durante los últimos ochenta años. Sin embargo, las acaloradas controversias entre las dos …