Open-source, low-cost, Raspberry Pi-based experimental setup for implementing stochastic time series for temperature, oxygen concentration or pH in mesocosms.

#Science #Biology #Ecology #raspberrypi #opensource #Stochasticity #Temperature #climatechange #Fish

📄 Souques et al. (2025) All-in-one, versatile and low-cost experimental set-up to implement environmental stochasticity in mesocosms (PiStoch). Methods in Ecology and Evolution http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.70094

Now available ahead of print: "Allee Effects, Colonization, and Extinction: The Surprising Benefits of Demographic Stochasticity" by Angela Gong, Emma J. Walker, and Benjamin Gilbert

https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/735833

#allele #extinction #colonization #demographic #stochasticity

When is it adaptive for populations to "hedge their bets," even if it means doing worse on average? Weissman et al. find that incorporating stochasticity in models changes the extent to which we expect this strategy to evolve. Read now ahead of print!
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/735690

#population #stochasticity #evolution #strategy