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ECOL 8910: Perspectives in Computational Ecology

Spring 2017: Multi-scale Modeling

ECOL 8910: Perspectives in Computational Ecology

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April 11, 2017 paige

Persistence and management of spatially distributed populations

Hastings, A., 2014. Persistence and management of spatially distributed populations. Population Ecology, 56(1), pp.21-26. This review paper describes a framework

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April 11, 2017 michelle

The Geographic Scaling of Biotic Interactions

Araújo, Miguel B., and Alejandro Rozenfeld. 2014. “The Geographic Scaling of Biotic Interactions.” Ecography 37 (5): 406–15. doi:10.1111/j.1600-0587.2013.00643.x. ______________________ Araujo

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April 10, 2017 briggs

Spread of introduced species in heterogeneous landscapes: effects of dispersal, habitat quality, and fragmentation

Understanding the mechanisms fostering the spread of organisms, particularly invasive species and disease agents, is a topic of major concern

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April 10, 2017 robbie

Ecosystems off track: rate-induced critical transitions in ecological models

Siteur et al. provide a relatively thorough description of a particular type of critical transition in ecology: those that are

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April 8, 2017 briggs

Scale-dependent feedbacks and regular pattern formation in mussel beds

Self-organization has been hypothesized as one of the factors explaining the emergence of regular spatial patterns of organisms in landscapes. 

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April 3, 2017 claire

Moving forward: insights and applications of moving‐habitat models for climate change ecology

Harsch, M. A., Phillips, A., Zhou, Y., Leung, M. R., Rinnan, D. S., & Kot, M. (2017). Moving forward: insights

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April 3, 2017 paige

Spatial pattern formation facilitates eradication of infectious diseases

Eisinger, D. and Thulke, H.H., 2008. Spatial pattern formation facilitates eradication of infectious diseases. Journal of Applied Ecology, 45(2), pp.415-423.

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March 30, 2017 claire

Lévy walks evolve through interaction between movement and environmental complexity

de Jager, M., Weissing, F. J., Herman, P. M., Nolet, B. A., & van de Koppel, J. (2011). Lévy walks

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March 29, 2017 robbie

Spatial Structure, Transmission Modes and the Evolution of Viral Exploitation Strategies

Berngruber et al. extend prior studies on the effect of spatial structure on virulence evolution to consider the role that

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March 28, 2017 robbie

Spatial Pattern Formation in an Insect Host-Parasitoid System

Maron and Harrison set out to empirically test the result of many spatially explicit predator-prey models that patchy distributions in

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