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View article: Evolution of foraging behaviour induces variable complexity-stability relationships in mutualist-exploiter-predator communities
Evolution of foraging behaviour induces variable complexity-stability relationships in mutualist-exploiter-predator communities Open
Early ecological theory predicts that complex ecological networks are unstable and are unlikely to persist, despite many empirical studies of such complexity in nature. This inconsistency has fascinated ecologists for decades. To resolve t…
View article: Parasites and investment to host inflorescences in a fig tree–fig wasp mutualism
Parasites and investment to host inflorescences in a fig tree–fig wasp mutualism Open
Most mutualisms are parasitized by third‐party species that inflict costs to the mutualists. How such parasites affect mechanisms that help maintain mutualism stability is poorly understood, even in well‐studied systems. Angiosperm plants …
View article: Editorial: Models in population, community and ecosystem dynamics
Editorial: Models in population, community and ecosystem dynamics Open
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View article: Altruism plasticity and byproduct-service exchange in the evolution of reciprocal cooperation in Escherichia coli
Altruism plasticity and byproduct-service exchange in the evolution of reciprocal cooperation in Escherichia coli Open
Explaining how cooperative individuals positively assort into a cohesive community is one of the greatest challenges for evolutionary biology. Here, we show that in antibiotic culture, many and even all of Escherichia coli bacteria cells w…
View article: Models in Population, Community and Ecosystem Dynamics
Models in Population, Community and Ecosystem Dynamics Open
View article: Path-dependent speciation in dynamic fitness landscapes
Path-dependent speciation in dynamic fitness landscapes Open
Species is one of the most basic concepts in evolutionary biology and biodiversity, however, the existing definitions of species are imprinted with artificial factors or difficulty in practical application, which is confused in the classif…
View article: Asymmetric and uncertain interactions within mutualisms
Asymmetric and uncertain interactions within mutualisms Open
Although understanding mutualism stability has advanced over the last few decades, two fundamental problems still remain in explaining how mutualisms maintain stable. (i) How does resolve conflict between mutualists over resources? (ii) In…
View article: Exponential Cell Division and Allometric Scaling in Metabolic Ecology
Exponential Cell Division and Allometric Scaling in Metabolic Ecology Open
One of the most fundamental rules in metabolic ecology is the allometric equation, which is a power-law scaling that describes the connection between body measurements and body size. The biological dynamics of this essentially empirical al…
View article: Effect of Feedback between Environment and Finite Population
Effect of Feedback between Environment and Finite Population Open
Natural selection imply that any organisms including human being will evolve to improve its fitness advantage and the selected genotype or phenotype in equilibrium state will not vary over the time. However, evolutionary process of biologi…
View article: Super-rational aspiration promotes cooperation in the asymmetric game with peer exit punishment and reward
Super-rational aspiration promotes cooperation in the asymmetric game with peer exit punishment and reward Open
View article: Author Correction: Path probability selection in nature and path integral
Author Correction: Path probability selection in nature and path integral Open
However, this basic idea of biological evolution, which is mathematically described by Price equation or its relations, has not fully considered feedback effects from the environment or other generations." now reads: "However, this basic i…
View article: A confidence ellipse analysis for stochastic dynamics model of Alzheimer’s disease
A confidence ellipse analysis for stochastic dynamics model of Alzheimer’s disease Open
The Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disease, which is caused by the aggregation of beta-amyloid peptide (Aβ) in the patient’s brain and the disorder of Ca 2+ homeostasis in neurons. Caluwé and Dupont [1] proposed a determin…
View article: Path probability selection in nature and path integral
Path probability selection in nature and path integral Open
View article: Differential microbial assembly processes and co‐occurrence networks in the soil‐root continuum along an environmental gradient
Differential microbial assembly processes and co‐occurrence networks in the soil‐root continuum along an environmental gradient Open
Microorganisms of the soil‐root continuum play key roles in ecosystem function. The Loess Plateau is well known for its severe soil erosion and thick loess worldwide, where mean annual precipitation (MAP) and soil nutrients decrease from t…
View article: Disease-Induced Cooperation Mitigates Populations Against Decline: The Cascade Effect of Cooperation Evolution
Disease-Induced Cooperation Mitigates Populations Against Decline: The Cascade Effect of Cooperation Evolution Open
Due to density-dependent selection, the ecological factors impacting population dynamics can play an important role in promoting cooperation, and accordingly, benefit a population from the eco-evolutionary feedback. This implies that coope…
View article: The Polymorphism of Producing Public Goods in an Evolutionary Volunteer's Dilemma Game
The Polymorphism of Producing Public Goods in an Evolutionary Volunteer's Dilemma Game Open
There is an inconsistency between theory and observations with regards to the contributions of strong and weak players to the public goods. Theory suggests that contributors are either strong players in asymmetric games or cooperative play…
View article: On the methodology of Darwinism and Non-Darwinism
On the methodology of Darwinism and Non-Darwinism Open
View article: The correlation analyses of bacterial community composition and spatial factors between freshwater and sediment in Poyang Lake wetland by using artificial neural network (ANN) modeling
The correlation analyses of bacterial community composition and spatial factors between freshwater and sediment in Poyang Lake wetland by using artificial neural network (ANN) modeling Open
View article: The cost of parasitism: High larval developmental mortality following attacks by a parasitoid fig wasp on a fig pollinating wasp
The cost of parasitism: High larval developmental mortality following attacks by a parasitoid fig wasp on a fig pollinating wasp Open
View article: Weak predation strength promotes stable coexistence of predators and prey in the same chain and across chains
Weak predation strength promotes stable coexistence of predators and prey in the same chain and across chains Open
The mechanisms of species coexistence make ecologists fascinated, although theoretical work show that omnivory can promote coexistence of species and food web stability, it is still a lack of the general mechanisms for species coexistence …
View article: Differential Deployment of Sanctioning Mechanisms in Male and Female Host Trees in a Gynodioecious Fig–Wasp Mutualism
Differential Deployment of Sanctioning Mechanisms in Male and Female Host Trees in a Gynodioecious Fig–Wasp Mutualism Open
Fig trees (Ficus spp.) are only pollinated by fig wasps, whose larvae only use fig flowers as food. The trees ensure pollination by increasing the offspring mortality rates of wasps that fail to pollinate. This is achieved by selective inv…
View article: Foundress numbers and the timing of selective events during interactions between figs and fig wasps
Foundress numbers and the timing of selective events during interactions between figs and fig wasps Open
View article: Popularity enhances the interdependent network reciprocity
Popularity enhances the interdependent network reciprocity Open
Interdependent networks (IN) are collections of non-trivially interrelated graphs that are not physically connected, and provide a more realistic representation of real-world networked systems as compared to traditional isolated networks. …
View article: Sex Ratio Elasticity Influences the Selection of Sex Ratio Strategy
Sex Ratio Elasticity Influences the Selection of Sex Ratio Strategy Open
There are three sex ratio strategies (SRS) in nature—male-biased sex ratio, female-biased sex ratio and, equal sex ratio. It was R. A. Fisher who first explained why most species in nature display a sex ratio of ½. Consequent SRS theories …
View article: Women Tend to Defect in a Social Dilemma Game in Southwest China
Women Tend to Defect in a Social Dilemma Game in Southwest China Open
Cooperation theories assume that interacting individuals can change their strategies under different expected payoffs, depending on their social status or social situations. When looking at sex differences in cooperation, the existing stud…
View article: The evolution of optimal resource allocation and mating systems in hermaphroditic perennial plants
The evolution of optimal resource allocation and mating systems in hermaphroditic perennial plants Open
By incorporating the effects of inbreeding depression (ID) on both juveniles and adults survivorship, we developed a new theoretical model for hermaphroditic perennial plants. Our model showed that the effect of the selfing rate on the evo…
View article: Costimulation of soil glycosidase activity and soil respiration by nitrogen addition
Costimulation of soil glycosidase activity and soil respiration by nitrogen addition Open
Unprecedented levels of nitrogen (N) have been deposited in ecosystems over the past century, which is expected to have cascading effects on microbially mediated soil respiration ( SR ). Extracellular enzymes play critical roles on the deg…
View article: Sex ratio elasticity influences the selection of sex ratio strategy
Sex ratio elasticity influences the selection of sex ratio strategy Open
There are three sex ratio strategies (SRS) in nature—male-biased sex ratio, female-biased sex ratio and, equal sex ratio depending on the proportion of male offspring being greater than, less than, or equal to ½. The problem was already no…
View article: Sex ratio elasticity influences the selection of sex ratio strategy
Sex ratio elasticity influences the selection of sex ratio strategy Open
There are three sex ratio strategies (SRS) in nature—male-biased sex ratio, female-biased sex ratio and, equal sex ratio depending on the proportion of male offspring being greater than, less than, or equal to ½. The problem was already no…
View article: Collective punishment is more effective than collective reward for promoting cooperation
Collective punishment is more effective than collective reward for promoting cooperation Open