Dr. JenniferDec 23, 2023
Article submitted just in time for the holidays … 🤞 ! Its our homage to the heritage of R May in #ecologicaltheory /We’ve used the ideas of GF Gause and his #CompetitiveExclusion #model to calculate phase portraits of 2 species in competition and then explore if #AlternateStable states theory (the famous #tippingpoints) has any applications in real world ecosystems. Our results were surprisingly clear…
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And for those working with Species Distribution Models #SDM #ecologicalNiche or #alienspecies, the chapter 'Assumptions: Respecting the known unknowns' by @DrBruceWebber, Roger Cousens and Daniel Atwater is a must-read:

https://bookdown.org/rogerdavidcousens/_book/assumptions-respecting-the-known-unknowns.html

#ecology #modelling #SpeciesDistributionModels #ecologicalTheory

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Bruce Webber , Roger Cousens and Daniel Atwater How to cite this chapter Webber B. L., Cousens R. D. and Atwater D. Z. (2023) Assumptions: respecting the known unknowns. In: Cousens R. D. (ed.)...

Phys.orgApr 6, 2023

Referenced link: https://phys.org/news/2023-04-ecological-theory-decades-coffee-farm.html
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Originally posted by Phys.org / @physorg_com: http://nitter.platypush.tech/physorg_com/status/1643978111518937098#m

Researchers inform #ecologicaltheory with findings from decades of coffee farm fieldwork @umich @PNASNews https://pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2217372120 https://phys.org/news/2023-04-ecological-theory-decades-coffee-farm.html

Researchers inform ecological theory with findings from decades of coffee farm fieldwork

University of Michigan ecologists Ivette Perfecto and John Vandermeer made their initial forays into agrosystems biodiversity research in the late 1980s while teaching an ecology field course in Costa Rica.

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