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View article: Mathematical Perspectives on Rewilding
Mathematical Perspectives on Rewilding Open
Achieving sustainable human-wildlife coexistence in well-functioning ecosystems is a vitally important and major challenge under global change. In response, rewilding is an emerging paradigm in ecosystem service provision through the re-es…
View article: Using mathematical modelling to highlight challenges in understanding trap counts obtained by a baited trap
Using mathematical modelling to highlight challenges in understanding trap counts obtained by a baited trap Open
Baited traps are routinely used in many ecological and agricultural applications, in particular when information about pest insects is required. However, interpretation of trap counts is challenging, as consistent methods or algorithms rel…
View article: Non-contact ultrasound testing of batteries
Non-contact ultrasound testing of batteries Open
Hy-Met are a company using ultrasound for non-destructive testing of batteries. These ultrasound signals contain information on the health of a battery. Hy-Met aim to understand real acoustic data. However, data for particular defects is s…
View article: Multimodality in diversity-disturbance relationships for generalized competition-colonization dynamics
Multimodality in diversity-disturbance relationships for generalized competition-colonization dynamics Open
Disturbance has long been recognized as a critical driver of species diversity in community ecology. Recently, it has been found that the well-known intermediate disturbance hypothesis, which predicts a unimodal diversity-disturbance relat…
View article: Complex nonmonotonic responses of biodiversity to habitat destruction
Complex nonmonotonic responses of biodiversity to habitat destruction Open
It has typically been assumed that habitat destruction, characterized by habitat loss and fragmentation, has consistently negative effects on biodiversity. While numerous empirical studies have shown the detrimental effects of habitat loss…
View article: Towards a mechanistic understanding of variation in aquatic food chain length
Towards a mechanistic understanding of variation in aquatic food chain length Open
Ecologists have long sought to understand variation in food chain length (FCL) among natural ecosystems. Various drivers of FCL, including ecosystem size, resource productivity and disturbance, have been hypothesised. However, when results…
View article: Contrasting effects of dispersal network heterogeneity on ecosystem stability in rock-paper-scissors games
Contrasting effects of dispersal network heterogeneity on ecosystem stability in rock-paper-scissors games Open
Intransitive competition, typically represented by the classic rock-paper-scissors game, provides an endogenous mechanism promoting species coexistence. As well known, species dispersal and interaction in nature might occur on complex patc…
View article: A patch‐dynamic metacommunity perspective on the persistence of mutualistic and antagonistic bipartite networks
A patch‐dynamic metacommunity perspective on the persistence of mutualistic and antagonistic bipartite networks Open
The structure of interactions between species within a community plays a key role in maintaining biodiversity. Previous studies found that the effects of these structures might vary substantially depending on interaction type, for example,…
View article: Competition–colonization dynamics and multimodality in diversity–disturbance relationships
Competition–colonization dynamics and multimodality in diversity–disturbance relationships Open
Disturbance has long been recognized as a critical driver of species diversity in community ecology. Recently, it has been found that the well‐known intermediate disturbance hypothesis, which predicts a unimodal diversity–disturbance relat…
View article: Habitat loss alters effects of intransitive higher-order competition on biodiversity: a new metapopulation framework
Habitat loss alters effects of intransitive higher-order competition on biodiversity: a new metapopulation framework Open
Recent studies have suggested that intransitive competition, as opposed to hierarchical competition, allows more species to coexist. Furthermore, it is recognized that the prevalent paradigm, which assumes that species interactions are exc…
View article: Dispersal network heterogeneity promotes species coexistence in hierarchical competitive communities
Dispersal network heterogeneity promotes species coexistence in hierarchical competitive communities Open
Understanding the mechanisms of biodiversity maintenance is a fundamental issue in ecology. The possibility that species disperse within the landscape along differing paths presents a relatively unexplored mechanism by which diversity coul…
View article: Metacommunity robustness of plant–fly–wasp tripartite networks with specialization to habitat loss
Metacommunity robustness of plant–fly–wasp tripartite networks with specialization to habitat loss Open
Recent observations have found plant‐species‐specific fly‐host selection (i.e., specialization) of wasp parasitoids (wasps) in plant–fly–wasp (P–F–W) tripartite networks, yet no study has explored the dynamical implications of such high‐or…
View article: The role of omnivory in mediating metacommunity robustness to habitat destruction
The role of omnivory in mediating metacommunity robustness to habitat destruction Open
Omnivores have long been known to play an important role in determining the stability of ecological communities. Recent theoretical studies have suggested that they may also increase the resilience of their communities to habitat destructi…
View article: Habitat heterogeneity mediates effects of individual variation on spatial species coexistence
Habitat heterogeneity mediates effects of individual variation on spatial species coexistence Open
Numerous studies have documented the importance of individual variation (IV) in determining the outcome of competition between species. However, little is known about how the interplay between IV and habitat heterogeneity (i.e. variation a…
View article: Equivariant homotopy commutativity for $G=C_{pqr}$
Equivariant homotopy commutativity for $G=C_{pqr}$ Open
We investigate the combinatorial data arising from the classification of equivariant homotopy commutativity for cyclic groups of order $G=C_{p_1 \cdots p_n}$ for $p_i$ distinct primes. In particular, we will prove a structural result which…
View article: Food web persistence in fragmented landscapes
Food web persistence in fragmented landscapes Open
Habitat destruction, characterized by patch loss and fragmentation, is a key driver of biodiversity loss. There has been some progress in the theory of spatial food webs; however, to date, practically nothing is known about how patch confi…
View article: Diverse responses of species to landscape fragmentation in a simple food chain
Diverse responses of species to landscape fragmentation in a simple food chain Open
Habitat destruction, characterized by habitat loss and fragmentation, is a key driver of species extinction in spatial extended communities. Recently, there has been some progress in the theory of spatial food webs, however to date practic…
View article: Robustness of metacommunities with omnivory to habitat destruction: disentangling patch fragmentation from patch loss
Robustness of metacommunities with omnivory to habitat destruction: disentangling patch fragmentation from patch loss Open
Habitat destruction, characterized by patch loss and fragmentation, is a major driving force of species extinction, and understanding its mechanisms has become a central issue in biodiversity conservation. Numerous studies have explored th…
View article: Revisiting Brownian motion as a description of animal movement: a comparison to experimental movement data
Revisiting Brownian motion as a description of animal movement: a comparison to experimental movement data Open
Summary Characterization of patterns of animal movement is a major challenge in ecology with applications to conservation, biological invasions and pest monitoring. Brownian random walks, and diffusive flux as their mean field counterpart,…