ECOL 8910: Perspectives in Computational Ecology

van Ballegooijen, W.M. and Boerlijst, M.C., 2004. Emergent trade-offs and selection for outbreak frequency in spatial epidemics. Proceedings of the

Johnson, Craig R., and Maarten C. Boerlijst. “Selection at the Level of the Community: The Importance of Spatial Structure.” Trends

Non-hierarchical competitive interactions between species (i.e. intransitive competitive networks) are a mechanism that is theorized to permit stable coexistence among

Grenfell, B.T., Pybus, O.G., Gog, J.R., Wood, J.L., Daly, J.M., Mumford, J.A. and Holmes, E.C., 2004. Unifying the epidemiological and

Schoener, T. W. (2011). The newest synthesis: understanding the interplay of evolutionary and ecological dynamics. Science, 331, 426-429. In this conceptual review,

Dispersal is a key component of any metapopulation model and can influence competition between otherwise identical populations, however the role

Goldwyn, Eli E., and Alan Hastings. “When Can Dispersal Synchronize Populations?” Theoretical Population Biology 73, no. 3 (May 2008): 395–402.

Network structure is being increasingly applied to the study of metapopulations, as a spatially explicit way to better characterize how