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A PDE Model for Protocell Evolution and the Origin of Chromosomes via Multilevel Selection

scientific article published in 2022

A keystone ecologist: Robert Treat Paine, 1933-2016.

scientific article

A neutral metapopulation model of biodiversity in river networks

scientific article

A note on difference-delay equations

scientific article published on April 1, 1976

A well-timed shift from local to global agreements accelerates climate change mitigation

scientific article published in 2021

Aggregation in model ecosystems. I. Perfect aggregation

article

Allelopathy in Spatially Distributed Populations ⬇️

scientific article published on March 21, 1997

An extra dimension to decision-making in animals: the three-way trade-off between speed, effort per-unit-time and accuracy

scientific article published on 18 December 2014

An invitation for more research on transnational corporations and the biosphere

scientific article published on 01 April 2020

Analysis of an age-structured fishery model

scientific article published in 1981

Analysis of an age-structured fishery model

scientific article published in 1980

Anticipating critical transitions

scientific article published on October 2012

Are We Consuming Too Much?

Asynchrony between virus diversity and antibody selection limits influenza virus evolution

scientific article published on 11 November 2020

Asynchrony between virus diversity and antibody selection limits influenza virus evolution

scientific article published on 29 April 2020

Bacteria push the limits of chemotactic precision to navigate dynamic chemical gradients

scientific article published on 16 May 2019

Beyond Ebola: lessons to mitigate future pandemics

scientific article published on July 2015

Biome-scale nitrogen fixation strategies selected by climatic constraints on nitrogen cycle ⬇️

scientific article

Building resilience and adaptation to manage Arctic change

scientific article published on June 2006

Bursts of nonsynonymous substitutions in HIV-1 evolution reveal instances of positive selection at conservative protein sites

scholarly article

Caring for the future can turn tragedy into comedy for long-term collective action under risk of collapse

scientific article published on 20 May 2020

Cascading regime shifts within and across scales

Cascading regime shifts within and across scales

scientific article published in Science

Challenges in Cybersecurity: Lessons from Biological Defense Systems

scientific article published in 2023

Climate change and the integrity of science

scientific article

Climate policies under wealth inequality

scientific article

Coalition-structured governance improves cooperation to provide public goods

scientific article published on 08 June 2020

Collective behavior as a driver of critical transitions in migratory populations

scientific article

Combating climate change with matching-commitment agreements

scientific article published on 19 June 2020

Community assembly and the emergence of ecosystem pattern

scientific article published in 2001

Comparing Classical Community Models: Theoretical Consequences for Patterns of Diversity

scientific article published in 2002

Comparing classical community models: theoretical consequences for patterns of diversity

scientific article

Comparison between perfect information and passive–adaptive social learning models of forest harvesting

scientific article published in 2008

Competition for water and light in closed-canopy forests: a tractable model of carbon allocation with implications for carbon sinks.

scientific article published on 28 January 2013

Competitive coexistence in a dynamic landscape

scientific article published on 01 December 2004

Complex systems: ecology for bankers

scientific article published in February 2008

Consensus and polarization in competing complex contagion processes

scientific article published on 19 June 2019

Conserved behavioral circuits govern high-speed decision-making in wild fish shoals

scientific article published on 12 November 2018

Cooperation among microorganisms

scientific article published in September 2006

Coping with uncertainty: a call for a new science-policy forum

scientific article published on August 2003

Correction for Giuggioli et al., Stigmergy, collective actions, and animal social spacing

scientific article published on February 2016

Correction to 'Physical limits on bacterial navigation in dynamic environments'.

scientific article published on August 2016

Correction to 'The growth of finfish in global open-ocean aquaculture under climate change'.

scientific article

Correction to “Tragedy of the commons in plant water use”

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Corridors of Clarity: Four Principles to Overcome Uncertainty Paralysis in the Anthropocene

scientific article published on 28 October 2020

Coupled ecological-social dynamics in a forested landscape: spatial interactions and information flow

scientific article published on 25 January 2007

Coupling ecology and evolution: malaria and the S-gene across time scales

scientific article published in May 2004

Crop booms as regime shifts

scientific article published in June 2024

Cross-reactive immune responses as primary drivers of malaria chronicity

scientific article published on 14 October 2013

Dealing with femtorisks in international relations

scientific article

Decision versus compromise for animal groups in motion

scientific article published on 19 December 2011

Decreased water limitation under elevated CO2 amplifies potential for forest carbon sinks

scientific article

Designing marine reserves for interacting species: Insights from theory

article

Differential neutralization efficiency of hemagglutinin epitopes, antibody interference, and the design of influenza vaccines

scholarly article

Disease at the wildlife-livestock interface: acaricide use on domestic cattle does not prevent transmission of a tick-borne pathogen with multiple hosts

scientific article

Disease risk mitigation: the equivalence of two selective mixing strategies on aggregate contact patterns and resulting epidemic spread

scientific article published on 21 August 2014

Dispersal Increases the Resilience of Tropical Savanna and Forest Distributions

scientific article published on 08 April 2020

Distinctions between the two-state and sequential models for cooperative ligand binding ⬇️

scientific article published on January 1, 1977

Disturbance, Patch Formation, and Community Structure ⬇️

scientific article (publication date: July 1974)

Diversity in current ecological thinking: implications for environmental management

scientific article

Does aquaculture add resilience to the global food system?

scientific article

Dynamic model of flexible phytoplankton nutrient uptake ⬇️

scientific article published on December 5, 2011

Dynamic response of grass cover to rainfall variability: implications for the function and persistence of savanna ecosystems

article

Dynamical models of ecosystems and epidemics

Dynamical resonance can account for seasonality of influenza epidemics

scientific article

Dynamics in a simple evolutionary-epidemiological model for the evolution of an initial asymptomatic infection stage

scientific article published on 08 May 2020

Ecological and evolutionary dynamics of interconnectedness and modularity

scientific article published on 8 January 2018

Ecological feedbacks. Termite mounds can increase the robustness of dryland ecosystems to climatic change.

scientific article

Ecology and evolution of the flu

article published in 2002

Ecology. Hatcheries and endangered salmon

scientific article published in March 2004

Economic and Behavioral Influencers of Vaccination and Antimicrobial Use

scientific article published on 21 December 2020

Economic growth, carrying capacity, and the environment

scientific article published in 1995

Economic growth, carrying capacity, and the environment

Editorial for the special issue of mathematical biosciences, BIOCOMP 2012.

scientific article published on 23 July 2013

Effective leadership and decision-making in animal groups on the move

scientific article (publication date: 3 February 2005)

Effects of human-induced prey depletion on large carnivores in protected areas: Lessons from modeling tiger populations in stylized spatial scenarios

scientific article published on 08 September 2019

Elinor Ostrom: An uncommon woman for the commons

scientific article (publication date: 30 July 2012)

Eluding catastrophic shifts

scientific article

Epidemiological and evolutionary considerations of SARS-CoV-2 vaccine dosing regimes

scientific article published on 3 February 2021

Epidemiological impacts of post-infection mortality

scientific article published on 12 July 2023

Evolution and persistence of influenza A and other diseases

scientific article published in March 2004

Evolution of a modular software network ⬇️

scientific article published on November 21, 2011

Evolution of an asymptomatic first stage of infection in a heterogeneous population

scientific article published in June 2021

Evolution of cooperation and skew under imperfect information

scientific article

Evolution of cooperation on temporal networks

scientific article published on 08 May 2020

Evolution of dispersal in explicitly spatial metacommunities

scientific article

Evolution of human-driven fire regimes in Africa.

scientific article

Evolutionary comparison between viral lysis rate and latent period

scientific article published on 17 December 2013

Evolutionary dynamics of collective index insurance.

scientific article published on 20 October 2015

Evolutionary escape from the prisoner's dilemma

scientific article published on 18 October 2006

Evolutionary tradeoffs can select against nitrogen fixation and thereby maintain nitrogen limitation

scholarly article

Explaining the Bomb-Like Dynamics of COVID-19 with Modeling and the Implications for Policy

scientific article published on 07 April 2020

Extreme temperature events will drive coral decline in the Coral Triangle

scientific article published on 27 December 2019

Facultative versus obligate nitrogen fixation strategies and their ecosystem consequences

scientific article

Farming and public goods production in Caenorhabditis elegans populations.

scientific article published on 9 February 2017

Fish and fisheries in hot water: What is happening and how do we adapt?

scientific article

Fishery discards impact on seabird movement patterns at regional scales.

scientific article published on 28 January 2010

Fitness tradeoffs between spores and nonaggregating cells can explain the coexistence of diverse genotypes in cellular slime molds

scientific article

Fractal reorientation clocks: Linking animal behavior to statistical patterns of search

scientific article (publication date: 9 December 2008)

From single steps to mass migration: the problem of scale in the movement ecology of the Serengeti wildebeest.

scientific article published in May 2018

Functional biogeography of ocean microbes revealed through non-negative matrix factorization

scientific article (publication date: 2012)

Fusing enacted and expected mimicry generates a winning strategy that promotes the evolution of cooperation.

scientific article published on 03 June 2013

Generalized models reveal stabilizing factors in food webs

scientific article published in August 2009

Generating Controlled, Dynamic Chemical Landscapes to Study Microbial Behavior

scientific article published on 31 January 2020

Global Marine Fishing across Space and Time

scientific article published on 9 June 2020

Global antibiotic consumption 2000 to 2010: an analysis of national pharmaceutical sales data

scientific article

Global asymptotic coherence in discrete dynamical systems

scholarly article

Global increase and geographic convergence in antibiotic consumption between 2000 and 2015.

scientific article published on 26 March 2018

Global stability in a chemostat with multiple nutrients

scientific article published on 6 March 2006

Global trends in antimicrobial use in food animals

scientific article published on 19 March 2015

Governing sustainable transformations of urban social-ecological-technological systems

scientific article published in 2022

Hemagglutinin sequence clusters and the antigenic evolution of influenza A virus

scientific article

Heterogeneous Preference and Local Nonlinearity in Consensus Decision Making

scientific article published on 22 January 2016

Heterogeneous animal group models and their group-level alignment dynamics: an equation-free approach

scientific article published on 19 December 2006

Hidden Effects of Chronic Tuberculosis in African Buffalo

scientific article published in September 2005

Host heterogeneity and epistasis explain punctuated evolution of SARS-CoV-2

scientific article published in February 2023

How can vaccines against influenza and other viral diseases be made more effective?

scientific article

How ecology shapes exploitation: a framework to predict the behavioural response of human and animal foragers along exploration-exploitation trade-offs

scientific article published on 2 April 2018

Human-environment interactions in population and ecosystem health

scientific article

Immune Heterogeneity and Epistasis Explain Punctuated Evolution of SARS-CoV-2

scientific article published on 29 July 2022

Immune life history, vaccination, and the dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 over the next 5 years

scientific article published on 21 September 2020

Impact of ocean phytoplankton diversity on phosphate uptake.

scientific article

Implications of localized charge for human influenza A H1N1 hemagglutinin evolution: Insights from deep mutational scans

scientific article published on 25 June 2020

Incentivizing hospital infection control

scientific article published on 11 March 2019

Increased plant growth from nitrogen addition should conserve phosphorus in terrestrial ecosystems

scholarly article

Innovating to educate paediatric consultant generalists for the new Canadian health care

scientific article published on 28 November 2017

Integrating theoretical climate and fire effects on savanna and forest systems

scientific article published on 15 June 2012

Intergenerational resource transfers with random offspring numbers

scientific article (publication date: 18 August 2009)

Interpreting ecological patterns generated through simple stochastic processes

scientific article published in 1991

Intraspecific Variation and Species Coexistence

scientific article

Intraspecific variation and species coexistence

scientific article published in December 2007

Introduction to PNAS special issue on evolutionary models of financial markets

scientific article published in 2021

Linking plant disease risk and precipitation drivers: a dynamical systems framework

scientific article published on 27 November 2012

Linking regional shifts in microbial genome adaptation with surface ocean biogeochemistry

scientific article published on 23 March 2020

Localized prosocial preferences, public goods, and common-pool resources

article published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Long-Distance Dispersal1

scientific article published in 2003

Long-distance biological transport processes through the air: can nature's complexity be unfolded in silico?

article

MARINE RESERVE DESIGN AND THE EVOLUTION OF SIZE AT MATURATION IN HARVESTED FISH

scholarly article by Marissa L. Baskett et al published June 2005 in Ecological Applications

Managing the climate commons at the nexus of ecology, behaviour and economics

Managing water-use trade-offs in a semi-arid river delta to sustain multiple ecosystem services: a modeling approach

scholarly article by Maja Schlüter et al published 15 January 2009 in Ecological Research

Marine phytoplankton resilience may moderate oligotrophic ecosystem responses and biogeochemical feedbacks to climate change

scientific article published in 2022

Marine phytoplankton stoichiometry mediates nonlinear interactions between nutrient supply, temperature, and atmospheric CO<sub>2</sub>

scientific article published in 2018

Marine taxa track local climate velocities

scientific article

Mechanisms of long-distance dispersal of seeds by wind

scientific article

Mechanistic analysis of the search behaviour of Caenorhabditis elegans

scientific article published on 15 January 2014

Medium-term scenarios of COVID-19 as a function of immune uncertainties and chronic disease

scientific article published in August 2023

Medium-term scenarios of COVID-19 as a function of immune uncertainties and chronic disease

scientific article published on 10 March 2023

Merging economics and epidemiology to improve the prediction and management of infectious disease

scientific article

Metapopulations, community assembly, and scale invariance in aspect space.

scientific article

Mobility can promote the evolution of cooperation via emergent self-assortment dynamics

scientific article published on 8 September 2017

Modeling Atlantic herring fisheries as multiscalar human-natural systems

scientific article published in April 2021

Modeling responses of coupled social–ecological systems of the Gulf of California to anthropogenic and natural perturbations

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Modeling tiger population and territory dynamics using an agent-based approach

scientific article published in September 2015

More than ponds amid skyscrapers: Urban fisheries as multiscalar human–natural systems

scientific article published on 30 June 2022

Natural search algorithms as a bridge between organisms, evolution, and ecology

scientific article

On Nonstable and Stable Population Momentum ⬇️

scientific article published on November 1, 2011

On state-space reduction in multi-strain pathogen models, with an application to antigenic drift in influenza A

scientific article published on 22 June 2007

On state-space reduction in multi-strain pathogen models, with an application to antigenic drift in influenza A.

scientific article

On the Role of Long Incubation Periods in the Dynamics of Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS). Part 2: Multiple Group Models

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On the evolutionary interplay between dispersal and local adaptation in heterogeneous environments

scientific article published on 19 May 2015

On the importance of incentives in hospital infection control spending.

scientific article

On the use of IPCC-class models to assess the impact of climate on Living Marine Resources

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On the use of hemagglutination-inhibition for influenza surveillance: surveillance data are predictive of influenza vaccine effectiveness

scientific article

Opinion: A new approach to financial regulation

scientific article

Opportunities for agent‐based modelling in human dimensions of fisheries

scientific article published on 28 February 2020

Optimal nitrogen-to-phosphorus stoichiometry of phytoplankton

scientific article published in May 2004

Our future in the Anthropocene biosphere

scientific article

PHYSIOLOGICAL AND BEHAVIORAL ADAPTATION TO VARYING ENVIRONMENTS: A MATHEMATICAL MODEL.

scientific article published in September 1988

Partial immunity and SARS-CoV-2 mutations—Response

scientific article published on 23 April 2021

Path-dependent institutions drive alternative stable states in conservation

article published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Pattern and scale in a serpentine grassland

Persistent colonization and the spread of antibiotic resistance in nosocomial pathogens: resistance is a regional problem

scholarly article

Physical limits on bacterial navigation in dynamic environments ⬇️

scientific article published on January 2016

Physiological and Behavioral Adaptation to Varying Environments: A Mathematical Model

article

Phytoplankton growth and stoichiometry under multiple nutrient limitation

scholarly article by Christopher A. Klausmeier et al published 31 January 2004 in Limnology and Oceanography

Positive feedbacks promote power-law clustering of Kalahari vegetation

scientific article

Quantifying resilience of humans and other animals

article published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Quorum sensing via dynamic cytokine signaling comprehensively explains divergent patterns of effector choice among helper T cells

scientific article published on 30 July 2020

Rainfall and temperatures changes have confounding impacts on Phytophthora cinnamomi occurrence risk in the southwestern USA under climate change scenarios

scientific article

Reducing antimicrobial use in food animals

scientific article published on 28 September 2017

Regime shifts in a social-ecological system

scientific article published in 2013

Relationship between treatment-seeking behaviour and artemisinin drug quality in Ghana

scientific article published on 6 April 2012

Reply to Abat et al.: Improved policies necessary to ensure an effective future for antibiotics

article published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Reply to Charra et al.: Global longitudinal assessment of 2019 changes in defined daily doses

scientific article published on 13 November 2018

Resilience, Robustness, and Marine Ecosystem-based Management

article by Simon A. Levin & Jane Lubchenco published 1 January 2008 in BioScience

Resource limitation in a competitive context determines complex plant responses to experimental resource additions

scientific article published in November 2013

Revenue-sharing clubs provide economic insurance and incentives for sustainability in common-pool resource systems

scientific article published on 05 June 2018

Risk transfer policies and climate-induced immobility among smallholder farmers

scientific article published in 2021

River networks as ecological corridors: A complex systems perspective for integrating hydrologic, geomorphologic, and ecologic dynamics

article

Robert May, 1936-2020: A man for all disciplines

scientific article published on 10 September 2020

Robert Treat Paine III (1933-2016).

scientific article

Robustness of norm-driven cooperation in the commons

scientific article published in January 2016

Role of economics in analyzing the environment and sustainable development

scientific article published on 01 March 2019

Safety standards for the environmental release of genetically engineered organisms ⬇️

scientific article published on 01 April 1988

Short-range dispersal maintains a volatile marine metapopulation: the brown alga Postelsia palmaeformis

scientific article

Slowing Down of Recovery as Generic Risk Marker for Acute Severity Transitions in Chronic Diseases

scientific article published on 12 January 2016

Social Norms and Global Environmental Challenges: The Complex Interaction of Behaviors, Values, and Policy

scientific article

Social dimensions of fertility behavior and consumption patterns in the Anthropocene

scientific article published on 12 March 2020

Social information use and the evolution of unresponsiveness in collective systems.

scientific article

Social norms as solutions

scientific article

Social-ecological systems as complex adaptive systems: modeling and policy implications

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Sociocultural determinants of global mask-wearing behavior

scientific article published on 11 October 2022

Spatial Aspects of Interspecific Competition ⬇️

scientific article published on February 1, 1998

Spatial and Biological Aspects of Reserve Design

Spatial feedbacks and the dynamics of savanna and forest

scientific article published on 30 April 2019

Spatial heterogeneity can resolve the nitrogen paradox of tropical forests

scientific article

Spatial patterning among savanna trees in high-resolution, spatially extensive data

scientific article published on 13 May 2019

Special issue of the Journal of Mathematical Biology to honor Alan Hastings' 65th birthday

scientific article published on 01 January 2020

Specialization and evolutionary branching within migratory populations ⬇️

scientific article published on November 8, 2010

Stability and recovery of coral-algae systems: the importance of recruitment seasonality and grazing influence

scientific article published on 23 July 2018

Stepping Up: A U.S. Perspective on the Ten Steps to Responsible Inland Fisheries

scientific article

Stigmergy, collective actions, and animal social spacing

scientific article

Strategic interactions in multi-institutional epidemics of antibiotic resistance

scientific article

Superinfection and the evolution of an initial asymptomatic stage

scientific article published on 27 January 2021

Superinfection and the evolution of resistance to antimalarial drugs

scientific article published on 11 July 2012

Synchronized deforestation induced by social learning under uncertainty of forest-use value

scientific article published in 2007

THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES ON EVOLUTION OF LONG-DISTANCE DISPERSAL AND THE EXAMPLE OF SPECIALIZED PESTS

scientific article published in 2003

The Economics of Infectious Disease, Trade and Pandemic Risk

scientific article published on 01 June 2018

The Effects of Disturbance Architecture on Landscape-Level Population Dynamics

article

The Role of Long Periods of Infectiousness in the Dynamics of Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS)

article

The Sustainable Biosphere Initiative: An Ecological Research Agenda: A Report from the Ecological Society of America

scientific article published in 1991

The dynamics of cocirculating influenza strains conferring partial cross-immunity ⬇️

scientific article published on August 1, 1997

The dynamics of group formation ⬇️

scientific article published on July 1, 1995

The effects of population heterogeneity on disease invasion ⬇️

scientific article published on July 1, 1995

The evolution of dispersal in reserve networks

scientific article published on 22 May 2007

The evolution of intergenerational discounting in offspring quality

scientific article

The evolution of intermittent breeding ⬇️

scientific article published on October 18, 2012

The evolution of norms

scientific article

The global extent and determinants of savanna and forest as alternative biome states

scientific article

The growth of finfish in global open-ocean aquaculture under climate change.

scientific article published in October 2017

The pleasure of pursuit: recreational hunters in rural Southwest China exhibit low exit rates in response to declining catch.

scientific article

The right incentives enable ocean sustainability successes and provide hope for the future

scientific article published on 2 December 2016

The role of mosaic phenomena in natural communities

scientific article published on 01 October 1977

The role of phytoplankton diversity in the emergent oceanic stoichiometry

scientific article published on 19 October 2015

The role of size inequality in self-thinning: A pattern-oriented simulation model for arid savannas

scientific article published in 2008

The social benefits of private infectious disease-risk mitigation

scientific article published on 17 April 2015

The survival of the conformist: social pressure and renewable resource management.

scientific article published on 28 July 2011

The timing of life history events

To breed or not to breed: a model of partial migration

article by Allison K. Shaw & Simon A. Levin published 8 November 2011 in Oikos

Towards the marriage of theory and data ⬇️

scientific article published on April 6, 2012

Trading-off fish biodiversity, food security, and hydropower in the Mekong River Basin

scientific article

Tragedy of the commons in plant water use

article

Trajectory of individual immunity and vaccination required for SARS-CoV-2 community immunity: a conceptual investigation

scientific article published in February 2021

Transnational corporations and the challenge of biosphere stewardship

scientific article published on 16 September 2019

Tree clusters in savannas result from islands of soil moisture

scientific article published on 14 March 2019

Tree cover in sub-Saharan Africa: rainfall and fire constrain forest and savanna as alternative stable states

scientific article

Understanding the coevolution of mask wearing and epidemics: A network perspective

scientific article published on 23 June 2022

Uninformed individuals promote democratic consensus in animal groups

scientific article

Urban ecology: advancing science and society

article

Urbanization, Migration, and Adaptation to Climate Change

scientific article

Use antimicrobials wisely

scientific article

Vaccine breakthrough and the invasion dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 variants

scientific article published on 14 December 2021

Vaccine nationalism and the dynamics and control of SARS-CoV-2

scientific article published on 24 September 2021

Vaccine nationalism and the dynamics and control of SARS-CoV-2

scientific article published on 5 June 2021

Vertically structured prokaryotic community can control the efficiency of the biological pump in the oceans

scientific article published in 2009

Visual sensory networks and effective information transfer in animal groups.

scientific article

WTO must ban harmful fisheries subsidies

scientific article

Wealth reallocation and sustainability under climate change

scholarly article by Eli P Fenichel et al published March 2016 in Nature Climate Change

What is blue growth? The semantics of “Sustainable Development” of marine environments

scholarly article by Anne Maria Eikeset et al published January 2018 in Marine Policy

What mathematics can do for sustainability

scientific article published in February 2015

“Critical Slowing Down” in Time-to-extinction: an Example of Critical Phenomena in Ecology ⬇️

scientific article published on June 7, 1998

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