Hi everyone,

For our next institute's #seminar # (Thursday, 14:15 CET) I've invited Christian Guill and Louica Philipp (@Louzula) from Potsdam University. They will explain how self-organised pattern formation supports #diversity in trophic #metacommunities.

It's going to be a hybrid seminar. Please let me know in case you would like to join, so I can forward the zoom link via DM!

#TheoreticalEcology
#EcologicalModelling
#YoMos

Now available ahead of print! "The Geography of Metacommunities: Landscape Characteristics Drive Geographic Variation in the Assembly Process through Selecting Species Pool Attributes" by Khattar & Peres-Neto https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/729423

#geography #metacommunities #variation #selection #speciesPool

In this article we argue ecologists need to return to the early literature of theoretical ecology to fully understand its historical context and original motivations. The oversights we found inspired us to not just review the literature, but also re-evaluate and complete the theory, and in the process highlight ideas that were missing when it was proposed. #epistemology #historicalecology #metacommunities
#Gause #competition
We finally arrived at #CIRM a few bus minutes away from #Marseille, France for the Conference on Mathematical Population Dynamics, Ecology and Evolution #CMPDEE 2023. I'm excited to get the chance to talk about the math-heavy, but super fascinating parts of our project on self-organized pattern formation in complex #metacommunities! @christian

New paper out led by Dorothee Hodapp asking whether temporal stability is induced by asynchronous dynamics of species in local communities or by spatially asynchronous dynamics between sites. Using plankton and benthos data, we find stronger spatial than local stabilisation.
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fevo.2023.864534/full

#EcologicalStability #Biodiversity #Metacommunities

Individual species and site dynamics are the main drivers of spatial scaling of stability in aquatic communities

IntroductionAny measure of ecological stability scales with the spatial and temporal extent of the data on which it is based. The magnitude of stabilization effects at increasing spatial scale is determined by the degree of synchrony between local and regional species populations.MethodsWe applied two recently developed approaches to quantify these stabilizing effects to time series records from three aquatic monitoring data sets differing in environmental context and organism type.Results and DiscussionWe found that the amount and general patterns of stabilization with increasing spatial scale only varied slightly across the investigated species groups and systems. In all three data sets, the relative contribution of stabilizing effects via asynchronous dynamics across space was higher than compensatory dynamics due to differences in biomass fluctuations across species and populations. When relating the stabilizing effects of individual species and sites to species and site-specific characteristics as well as community composition and aspects of spatial biomass distribution patterns, however, we found that the effects of single species and sites showed large differences and were highly context dependent, i.e., dominant species can but did not necessarily have highly stabilizing or destabilizing effects on overall community biomass. The sign and magnitude of individual contributions depended on community structure and the spatial distribution of biomass and species in spac...

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I am a community ecologist at #CentreforEcologicalResearch #CER in #Hungary, interested in #metacommunities #spatialecology #landscapeecology #connectivity #biodiversity #salinity #dispersal

Guest researcher at #KULeuven
Formerly #WasserClusterLunz #WCL

My lab combines #experimental work (mostly #mesocosms) and #empirical studies. Recently also into #eDNA and #citizenscience

I am part of the #aquacosm community and doing lots of research on #ponds

#epcn #sil #aslo
#aquacosmplus #mypond

Wanna see a proud #newPI?
Then come to the „evolution approaches“ sessions today! My team members Malina Palmer and Avril Weinbach will present their work on #ecoevo #feedback and #mutualism!

#coevolution
#metacommunities
#TheoreticalEcology
#EcologicalModeling
#AdaptiveDynamics

#EcologyMetz2022
#sfe2gfoe2022

Poster is up! Come talk to me about #diversity in #metacommunities through #patternformation 🦓 in the Theoretical Ecology section at #sfe2gfoe2022
Fall retreat of the DynaCom research unit funded by DFG offered discussions about #traits, #stability & #disturbances in #metacommunities, featured speedtalks by early career researchers and a workshop on (un)conscious biases in Academia.
@KorinnaAllhoff The GfÖ SFE2 #conference in #Metz will be my very first conference as a PhD student, so I'm already quite excited! I'm joining with Christian Guill and we'll talk a lot about self-organized #pattern #formation and #diversity in trophic #metacommunities. Will sneak in a poster I'm preparing just now. Laurie Wojcik from our group is joining as well. Looking forward to meet you there :)