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Temporally variable dispersal and demography can accelerate the spread of invading speciesStephen P Ellner
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853 2701, USA
Theor Popul Biol 82:283-98. 2012..Temporal variability in dispersal has received very little attention in both the theoretical and empirical literature on invasive species spread. Our results suggest that this needs to change...- Stochastic stable population growth in integral projection models: theory and applicationStephen P Ellner
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
J Math Biol 54:227-56. 2007..These results strongly suggest that the flowering strategy in O. illyricum is an adaptation to random between-year variation in vital rates... 
Within-host disease ecology in the sea fan Gorgonia ventalina: modeling the spatial immunodynamics of a coral-pathogen interactionStephen P Ellner
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA
Am Nat 170:E143-61. 2007..g., ocean warming, nutrient enrichment) on aspergillosis prevalence and severity and for the observed high spatial and between-host variability in disease impacts...- Integral projection models for species with complex demographyStephen P Ellner
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, 24853, USA
Am Nat 167:410-28. 2006..The online edition of the American Naturalist includes a zip archive of R scripts illustrating our suggested methods.A zip archive of R scripts illustrating our suggested methods is also provided... - Commentary on Holmes et al. (2007): resolving the debate on when extinction risk is predictableStephen P Ellner
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853 2701, USA
Ecol Lett 11:E1-5. 2008..imprecise). This allows PVA practitioners to define the prediction interval and threshold regions of safety (low risk with high confidence), danger (high risk with high confidence), and uncertainty... - Pair approximation for lattice models with multiple interaction scalesS P Ellner
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University, E145 Corson Hall, Ithaca, NY 14853 2701, USA
J Theor Biol 210:435-47. 2001..The multiscale pair approximation thus provides a useful intermediate between the standard pair approximation for a single interaction neighborhood, and a complete set of moment equations for more spatially detailed models... - Habitat structure and population persistence in an experimental communityS P Ellner
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853 2701, USA
Nature 412:538-43. 2001..Rather, habitat structure reduced the success of predators at locating prey outbreaks, allowing between-plant asynchrony of local population cycles due to random colonization events... - Does rapid evolution matter? Measuring the rate of contemporary evolution and its impacts on ecological dynamicsStephen P Ellner
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca NY 14853 2701, USA
Ecol Lett 14:603-14. 2011..Paradoxically, rapid evolution may be most important when it is least evident... - Rapid evolution drives ecological dynamics in a predator-prey systemTakehito Yoshida
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
Nature 424:303-6. 2003..These results confirm that prey evolution can substantially alter predator-prey dynamics, and therefore that attempts to understand population oscillations in nature cannot neglect potential effects from ongoing rapid evolution... 
Rapid contemporary evolution and clonal food web dynamicsLaura E Jones
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853 2701, USA
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 364:1579-91. 2009....- Cryptic population dynamics: rapid evolution masks trophic interactionsTakehito Yoshida
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America
PLoS Biol 5:e235. 2007..Modeling suggests that rapid evolution may also confound experimental approaches to measuring interaction strength, but it identifies certain experimental designs as being more robust against potential confounding by rapid evolution... - Ecology: mechanisms for consumer diversityTakehito Yoshida
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853 2701, USA
Nature 439:E1-2; discussion E2. 2006..Here we confirm this possibility by using a simple mathematical model and suggest that more than one mechanism may account for the maintenance of genetic diversity observed by Nelson et al. in their system... - Evolutionary tradeoff and equilibrium in an aquatic predator-prey systemLaura E Jones
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
Bull Math Biol 66:1547-73. 2004..Finally, we posit some simple experiments to verify our prediction that evolution can have significant qualitative effects on observed population-level responses to changing conditions... - Evolutionary trade-off between defence against grazing and competitive ability in a simple unicellular alga, Chlorella vulgarisTakehito Yoshida
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
Proc Biol Sci 271:1947-53. 2004..This genetic variation underlies rapid algal evolution that significantly alters the ecological predator-prey cycles between rotifers and algae... - Understanding rapid evolution in predator‐prey interactions using the theory of fast‐slow dynamical systemsMichael H Cortez
Center for Applied Mathematics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
Am Nat 176:E109-27. 2010.... - Effects of rapid prey evolution on predator-prey cyclesLaura E Jones
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
J Math Biol 55:541-73. 2007..Finally, some of our key results are extended to a general model in which functional forms for the predation rate and prey birth rate are not specified... - Reduction of adaptive genetic diversity radically alters eco-evolutionary community dynamicsLutz Becks
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
Ecol Lett 13:989-97. 2010..Our results show how small changes in the amount of adaptive genetic variance initially present can radically alter eco-evolutionary dynamics, and can ultimately determine whether heritable variation is maintained or lost... - Prey evolution on the time scale of predator-prey dynamics revealed by allele-specific quantitative PCRJustin R Meyer
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 103:10690-5. 2006..We used AsQ-PCR to confirm this prediction: the superior competitor dominated initially, but as rotifer densities increased, the more predator-resistant clone predominated... - Crossing the hopf bifurcation in a live predator-prey systemG F Fussmann
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Corson Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
Science 290:1358-60. 2000..The qualitative dynamical behavior of our experimental system, that is, cycles, equilibria, and extinction, is highly predictable by a simple nonlinear model... - How microbial community composition regulates coral disease developmentJustin Mao-Jones
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America
PLoS Biol 8:e1000345. 2010.... - Why animals lie: how dishonesty and belief can coexist in a signaling systemJonathan T Rowell
Center for Applied Mathematics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA
Am Nat 168:E180-204. 2006..We suggest future theoretical directions to make the models more general and propose some possible experimental tests... - Evolution of size-dependent flowering in a variable environment: construction and analysis of a stochastic integral projection modelDylan Z Childs
Department of Biological Sciences, NERC Centre for Population Biology, Imperial College, Silwood Park, Ascot SL5 7PY, UK
Proc Biol Sci 271:425-34. 2004..We prove the existence of a unique stochastic growth rate, lambda(s), which is independent of the initial population vector, and show that Tuljapurkar's perturbation analysis for log(lambda(s)) can be used to calculate elasticities... - Evolution as a critical component of plankton dynamicsGregor F Fussmann
Institut für Biochemie und Biologie, Universitat Potsdam, Maulbeerallee 2, D 14469 Potsdam, Germany
Proc Biol Sci 270:1015-22. 2003..We suggest that a similar amalgam of ecological and evolutionary mechanisms may drive the dynamics of rapidly reproducing organisms in the wild... - Pair-edge approximation for heterogeneous lattice population modelsNikkala A Thomson
Department of Statistics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695, USA
Theor Popul Biol 64:271-80. 2003..Conversely, the situations where the approximation is less accurate reveals limitations of pair approximation in the presence of spatial heterogeneity... - Chaos in a long-term experiment with a plankton communityElisa Benincà
Aquatic Microbiology, Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics, University of Amsterdam, Nieuwe Achtergracht 127, 1018 WS Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Nature 451:822-5. 2008..This implies that stability is not required for the persistence of complex food webs, and that the long-term prediction of species abundances can be fundamentally impossible... - Evolution of complex flowering strategies: an age- and size-structured integral projection modelDylan Z Childs
Department of Biological Sciences, Imperial College, Silwood Park, Ascot SL5 7PY, UK
Proc Biol Sci 270:1829-38. 2003..Results proving the existence of a dominant eigenvalue and its associated eigenvectors in general size- and age-dependent integral projection models are presented... - Energy storage and the evolution of population dynamicsKyle W Shertzer
Center for Coastal Fisheries and Habitat Research, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, 101 Pivers Island Road, Beaufort, NC 28516 USA
J Theor Biol 215:183-200. 2002..With the evolution of energy storage, population dynamics can shift from aperiodic to stable cycles without any need to invoke group selection...