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

Environmental variation is a ubiquitous component of individual, population and community
processes in the natural world. Here, we review the consequences of spatio-temporally …

Random environmental fluctuations pose major threats to wild populations. As patterns of
environmental noise are themselves altered by global change, there is a growing need to …

1. Temperature fluctuation is a general phenomenon affecting many, if not all, species in
nature. While a few studies have shown that temperature fluctuation can promote species …

Experimental laboratory systems (ELS) are widely applied research tools to test theoretical
predictions in ecology and evolution. Combining ELS with automated image analysis could …

Species have been commonly hypothesized to have high population densities in
geographic areas which correspond to either the centre of the species geographic range or …

Background Considerable attention has focused on how selection on dispersal and other
core life-history strategies (reproductive effort, survival ability, colonization capacity) may …

Many natural populations exhibit temporal fluctuations in abundance that are consistent with
external forcing by a randomly changing environment. As fitness emerges from an …

The prediction that environmental fluctuations may destabilise populations and yet stabilise
aggregate community properties has remained largely untested. We examined population …

The interplay between intrinsic population dynamics and environmental variation is still
poorly understood. It is known, however, that even mild environmental noise may induce …