One of the most ubiquitous phenomena of all natural populations is their variability in
numbers in space and time. However, there are notable differences among populations in …

Biological populations are strongly influenced by the random variation in their environment.
The spectrum of frequencies in noise is particularly important to dynamics and persistence …

Spatially synchronized fluctuations in system state are common in physical and biological
systems ranging from individual atoms to species as diverse as viruses, insects and …

The theme of the book is the distribution and abundance of organisms in space and time.
The core of the book lies in how local births and deaths are tied to emigration and …

Temporal fluctuations in growth rates can arise from both variation in age‐specific vital rates
and temporal fluctuations in age structure (ie the relative abundance of individuals in each …

This chapter provides a friendly review of the central concepts of probability theory focusing
on random variables and their properties that eventually lead to the notion of a stochastic …

The relative contribution of density-dependent regulation and environmental stochasticity to
the temporal dynamics of animal populations is one of the central issues of ecology. In …

The relative importance of endogenous feedback mechanism vs environmental factors in the
dynamics of animal populations is a long‐standing, but not fully resolved yet, issue in …

It is well known that fluctuations of species abundances observed in ecological time series
emerge from an interplay between deterministic nonlinear dynamics and stochastic forces …

Directionality in coupling, defined as the linkage relating causes to their effects at a later
time, can be used to explain the core dynamics of ecological systems by untangling direct …