Many biological and neural systems can be seen as networks of interacting periodic
processes. Importantly, their functionality, ie, whether these networks can perform their …

Laboratory microcosm experiments using protists as model organisms have a long tradition
and are widely used to investigate general concepts in population biology, community …

The synchronization of coupled oscillators is a fascinating manifestation of self-organization
that nature uses to orchestrate essential processes of life, such as the beating of the heart …

Changing temperature can substantially shift ecological communities by altering the strength
and stability of trophic interactions. Because many ecological rates are constrained by …

Predator–prey cycles rank among the most fundamental concepts in ecology, are predicted
by the simplest ecological models and enable, theoretically, the indefinite persistence of …

Trait-based approaches to investigate (short-and long-term) phytoplankton dynamics and
community assembly have become increasingly popular in freshwater and marine science …

Insects often undergo regular outbreaks in population density but identifying the causal
mechanism for such outbreaks in any particular species has proven difficult. Here, we show …

Experimental and theoretical studies show that mortality imposed on a population can
counter-intuitively increase the density of a specific life-history stage or total population …

The development of continuous culture techniques 60 years ago and the subsequent
formulation of theory and the diversification of experimental systems revolutionised …

Chimera states—curious symmetry-broken states in systems of identical coupled oscillators—
typically occur only for certain initial conditions. Here we analyze their basins of attraction in …