Statistical physics of human cooperation

M Perc, JJ Jordan, DG Rand, Z Wang, S Boccaletti… - Physics Reports, 2017 - Elsevier
Extensive cooperation among unrelated individuals is unique to humans, who often sacrifice
personal benefits for the common good and work together to achieve what they are unable …

Moving forward in circles: challenges and opportunities in modelling population cycles

F Barraquand, S Louca, KC Abbott, CA Cobbold… - Ecology …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Population cycling is a widespread phenomenon, observed across a multitude of taxa in
both laboratory and natural conditions. Historically, the theory associated with population …

Ecological network inference from long-term presence-absence data

EL Sander, JT Wootton, S Allesina - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
Ecological communities are characterized by complex networks of trophic and nontrophic
interactions, which shape the dy-namics of the community. Machine learning and …

Multitrophic Cry-protein flow in a dual-gene Bt-cotton field

M Eisenring, J Romeis, SE Naranjo… - Agriculture, Ecosystems & …, 2017 - Elsevier
The transfer of plant-produced insecticidal Cry-proteins in the arthropod food web can be
affected by a number of environmental and ecological factors. Despite this fact, most studies …

Eco-evolutionary theory and insect outbreaks

DJ Páez, V Dukic, J Dushoff… - The American …, 2017 - journals.uchicago.edu
Eco-evolutionary theory argues that population cycles in consumer-resource interactions are
partly driven by natural selection, such that changes in densities and changes in trait values …

A fitness trade-off between seasons causes multigenerational cycles in phenotype and population size

GS Betini, AG McAdam, CK Griswold, DR Norris - Elife, 2017 - elifesciences.org
Although seasonality is widespread and can cause fluctuations in the intensity and direction
of natural selection, we have little information about the consequences of seasonal fitness …

[HTML][HTML] Динамика численности и прогноз массовых размножений вредных насекомых: исторический экскурс и пути развития. Аналитический обзор

АН Фролов - Вестник защиты растений, 2017 - cyberleninka.ru
Изучение динамики численности насекомых прошло в своем развитии более чем
вековой путь, сопровождавшийся острыми дискуссиями по поводу того, каким факторам …

Spatial and temporal variation in the range-wide cyclic dynamics of greater sage-grouse

JR Row, BC Fedy - Oecologia, 2017 - Springer
Periodic changes in abundance, or population cycles, are common in a variety of species
and is one of the most widely studied ecological phenomena. The strength of, and …

Colonial, more widely distributed and less abundant bird species undergo wider population fluctuations independent of their population trend

JJ Cuervo, AP Møller - PLoS One, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Understanding temporal variability in population size is important for conservation biology
because wide population fluctuations increase the risk of extinction. Previous studies …

Integrating ecological theories and traits in process‐based modeling of macroinvertebrate community dynamics in streams

CP Mondy, N Schuwirth - Ecological applications, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Predicting the composition and dynamics of communities is a challenging but useful task to
efficiently support ecosystem management. Community ecology has developed a number of …