Over the past five decades, many studies have examined the Janzen-Connell hypothesis,
which posits that host-specific natural enemies, such as insect herbivores and fungal …

Microbial growth and carbon use efficiency (CUE) are central to the global carbon cycle, as
microbial remains form soil organic matter. We investigated how future global changes may …

The majority of known early warning indicators of critical transitions rely on asymptotic
resilience and critical slowing down. In continuous systems, critical slowing down is …

The overview on structured population models starts with the presentation of deterministic
models (section 2). On this ground models with physiological variables (section 3) and …

We analyze four models of epidemic spreading using a stochastic approach in which the
primary stochastic variables are the numbers of individuals in each class. The stochastic …

Unanticipated declines among exploited species have commonly occurred despite harvests
that appeared sustainable prior to collapse. This is particularly true in the oceans where …

Synergistic and antagonistic interactions in multi-species populations—such as resource
sharing and competition—result in remarkably diverse behaviours in populations of …

Ecologists and economists both use models to help develop strategies for biodiversity
management. The practical use of disciplinary models, however, can be limited because …

We study resident-invader dynamics in fluctuating environments when the invader and the
resident have close but distinct strategies. First we focus on a class of continuous-time …

We present an analysis of six deterministic models for epidemic spreading. The evolution of
the number of individuals of each class is given by ordinary differential equations of the first …