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A Bayesian framework for comparative quantitative genetics

scientific article published in March 2008

A General Approach to Model Movement in (Highly) Fragmented Patch Networks

scientific article published in August 2017

A Mobile Application–Based Citizen Science Product to Compile Bird Observations

scientific article published in 2024

A Spatio-Temporally Explicit Random Encounter Model for Large-Scale Population Surveys

scientific article

A fungal perspective on conservation biology.

scientific article

A general mathematical framework for the analysis of spatiotemporal point processes

article

A general mathematical method for predicting spatio-temporal correlations emerging from agent-based models

scientific article published on 28 October 2020

A large-scale and long-term experiment to identify effectiveness of ecosystem restoration

scientific article published on 3 April 2024

A molecular‐based identification resource for the arthropods of Finland

scientific article

A new method to uncover signatures of divergent and stabilizing selection in quantitative traits

scientific article

A numerical approach to determine mutant invasion fitness and evolutionary singular strategies

scientific article

A statistical framework for inferring the influence of conspecifics on movement behaviour

scientific article published on 24 January 2014

A unified framework for analysis of individual-based models in ecology and beyond

scientific article published on 17 October 2019

A unified measure of the number, volume and diversity of dead trees and the response of fungal communities

article

Accounting for environmental variation in co-occurrence modeling reveals the importance of positive interactions in root-associated fungal communities

scientific article published on 19 June 2020

Accounting for species interactions is necessary for predicting how arctic arthropod communities respond to climate change

scientific article

Adaptation to local climate in a multi-trait space: evidence from silver fir (Abies alba Mill.) populations across a heterogeneous environment

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Adaptation to local climate in multi-trait space: evidence from silver fir (Abies alba Mill.) populations across a heterogeneous environment

scientific article published on 10 June 2019

Age-dependent survival analyzed with Bayesian models of mark-recapture data

scientific article

Airborne DNA reveals predictable spatial and seasonal dynamics of fungi

scientific article published on 10 July 2024

Alternative measures of trait–niche relationships: A test on dispersal traits in saproxylic beetles

scientific article published in 2023

An Empirical Test of a Diffusion Model: Predicting Clouded Apollo Movements in a Novel Environment

article

An empirical test of a diffusion model: predicting clouded apollo movements in a novel environment

scientific article published on May 2008

An h-p-n adaptive finite element scheme for shell problems

Analytical and numerical tools for diffusion-based movement models

scientific article published on 24 November 2007

Animal Sound Identifier (ASI): software for automated identification of vocal animals

scientific article published on 25 June 2018

Artificial irrigation ponds and sea coast as foraging habitat for larids breeding in protected wetlands

Asymptotically exact analysis of stochastic metapopulation dynamics with explicit spatial structure

scientific article published on 24 October 2005

Atlantic frugivory: a plant-frugivore interaction data set for the Atlantic Forest

scientific article

Author Correction: Chronicles of nature calendar, a long-term and large-scale multitaxon database on phenology

scientific article published on 09 April 2020

Author Correction: Climate change reshuffles northern species within their niches

scientific article published in 2022

Bayesian Modelling of Sequential Discoveries

scientific article published on 11 April 2022

Bayesian approaches in evolutionary quantitative genetics

scientific article published on 29 March 2008

Bayesian methods for analyzing movements in heterogeneous landscapes from mark-recapture data

scientific article

Bayesian semiparametric long memory models for discretized event data

scientific article published in September 2022

Beyond metacommunity paradigms: habitat configuration, life history, and movement shape an herbivore community on oak.

scientific article

Biased movement at a boundary and conditional occupancy times for diffusion processes

article

Breeding system and reproductive skew in a highly polygynous ant population

Bringing habitat information into statistical tests of local adaptation in quantitative traits: a case study of nine-spined sticklebacks

scientific article published on 9 October 2013

Bryophyte species richness on retention aspens recovers in time but community structure does not.

scientific article

Can the cause of aggregation be inferred from species distributions?

article

Can we predict the expansion rate of a translocated butterfly population based on a priori estimated movement rates?

article

Characteristic Spatial and Temporal Scales Unify Models of Animal Movement ⬇️

scientific article published on July 1, 2011

Choosy beetles: How host trees and southern boreal forest naturalness may determine dead wood beetle communities

scientific article

Chronicles of nature calendar, a long-term and large-scale multitaxon database on phenology

scientific article published on 11 February 2020

Climate change reshuffles northern species within their niches

scientific article published in 2022

Co-occurrences of tropical trees in eastern South America: disentangling abiotic and biotic forces

scientific article published on 27 May 2021

Combining high-throughput sequencing with fruit body surveys reveals contrasting life-history strategies in fungi

scientific article

Common gardens in teosintes reveal the establishment of a syndrome of adaptation to altitude

scientific article published on 20 December 2019

Communities in high definition: Spatial and environmental factors shape the micro‐distribution of aquatic invertebrates

scientific article published on 17 August 2020

Community turnover of wood-inhabiting fungi across hierarchical spatial scales.

scientific article

Community-level phenological response to climate change

scientific article

Competition as a structuring force in leaf miner communities

article

Computationally efficient joint species distribution modeling of big spatial data

scientific article published on 20 December 2019

Connecting Earth observation to high-throughput biodiversity data

article by Alex Bush et al published 22 June 2017 in Nature Ecology and Evolution

Contrasting Effects of Chronic Anthropogenic Disturbance on Activity and Species Richness of Insectivorous Bats in Neotropical Dry Forest

scientific article published on 17 February 2022

Convergence of fungal traits over time in natural and forestry-fragmented patches

scientific article published in 2020

Correlated velocity models as a fundamental unit of animal movement: synthesis and applications

scientific article (publication date: 2017)

Defaunation Leads to Functional Loss in a Tropical Biodiversity Hotspot

scientific article published in 2020

Defaunation affects carbon storage in tropical forests.

scientific article

Design matters: An evaluation of the impact of small man-made forest clearings on tropical bats using a before-after-control-impact design

article by Ricardo Rocha et al published October 2017 in Forest Ecology and Management

Detecting parasite associations within multi-species host and parasite communities

scientific article published on 02 October 2019

Determining marine bioregions: A comparison of quantitative approaches

scientific article published on 9 August 2020

Differences in spatial versus temporal reaction norms for spring and autumn phenological events

scientific article published on 23 November 2020

Digital twins: dynamic model-data fusion for ecology

scientific article published in October 2023

Direct and indirect effects of a pH gradient bring insights into the mechanisms driving prokaryotic community structures.

scientific article published on 11 June 2018

Discovery of long-distance gamete dispersal in a lichen-forming ascomycete

scientific article published on 07 August 2017

Disease ecology. Ecological and evolutionary effects of fragmentation on infectious disease dynamics.

scientific article published on June 2014

Dispersal in the Glanville fritillary butterfly in fragmented versus continuous landscapes: comparison between three methods

article by RONGJIANG WANG et al published 14 March 2011 in Ecological Entomology

Dispersal may limit the occurrence of specialist wood decay fungi already at small spatial scales

scientific article published in 2012

Dispersal potential of spores and asexual propagules in the epixylic hepatic Anastrophyllum hellerianum

Dispersal-related life-history trade-offs in a butterfly metapopulation

scientific article

Distance decay 2.0 – A global synthesis of taxonomic and functional turnover in ecological communities

scientific article published in 2022

Do small spores disperse further than large spores?

scientific article published on June 2014

Does trait‐based joint species distribution modelling reveal the signature of competition in stream macroinvertebrate communities?

scientific article

Domain‐specific neural networks improve automated bird sound recognition already with small amount of local data

scientific article published on 17 October 2022

Dynamics of a host-parasitoid interaction clarified by modelling and DNA sequencing

scientific article published on 23 March 2020

Ecological dependencies make remote reef fish communities most vulnerable to coral loss

scientific article published on 14 December 2021

Ecological speciation in postglacial European whitefish: rapid adaptive radiations into the littoral, pelagic, and profundal lake habitats

scientific article published on 11 November 2013

Eco‐Evolutionary Metapopulation Dynamics and the Spatial Scale of Adaptation

article

Effects of a mobile disturbance pattern on dynamic patch networks and metapopulation persistence

scholarly article by Henna Fabritius et al published November 2021 in Ecological Modelling

Effects of density, species interactions, and environmental stochasticity on the dynamics of British bird communities

scientific article published on 13 April 2022

Effects of ecological continuity on species richness and composition in forests and woodlands: A review

article

Environmentally induced dispersal-related life-history syndrome in the tropical butterfly, Bicyclus anynana

scientific article published on 17 September 2012

Erratum to: Home-range use patterns and movements of the Siberian flying squirrel in urban forests: effects of habitat composition and connectivity.

scientific article published on 14 April 2016

Estimating Population-Level Coancestry Coefficients by an Admixture F Model ⬇️

scientific article published on July 13, 2012

Estimating interaction credit for trophic rewilding in tropical forests

scientific article published on 22 October 2018

Estimating seed and pollen dispersal kernels from genetic data demonstrates a high pollen dispersal capacity for an endangered palm species

article

Evolution, plasticity and evolving plasticity of phenology in the tree species Alnus glutinosa

scientific article published on 20 October 2015

Evolutionary responses of dispersal distance to landscape structure and habitat loss

scientific article published on 14 March 2011

Exact asymptotic analysis for metapopulation dynamics on correlated dynamic landscapes ⬇️

scientific article published on 25 July 2008

Experimental evidence that root‐associated fungi improve plant growth at high altitude

scientific article published on 4 May 2024

Experimentally induced community assembly of polypores reveals the importance of both environmental filtering and assembly history

scientific article published in 2019

Extending Joint Models in Community Ecology: A Response to Beissinger et al.

scientific article published on 8 August 2016

Extinction Debt at Extinction Threshold

Five simple guidelines for establishing basic authenticity and reliability of newly generated fungal ITS sequences

scientific article

Flight metabolic rate and Pgi genotype influence butterfly dispersal rate in the field

scientific article published on August 2009

Forest and connectivity loss drive changes in movement behavior of bird species

scientific article published on 8 May 2020

Fragmented tropical forests lose mutualistic plant–animal interactions

scientific article published on 17 November 2019

From individual behavior to metapopulation dynamics: unifying the patchy population and classic metapopulation models

scientific article published on 30 July 2004

Frontiers in Metapopulation Biology: The Legacy of Ilkka Hanski

scientific article

Frugivory Specialization in Birds and Fruit Chemistry Structure Mutualistic Networks across the Neotropics

scientific article published on 27 October 2020

Fruit body based inventories in wood-inhabiting fungi: Should we replicate in space or time?

scientific article published in 2016

Fungal communities decline with urbanization-more in air than in soil

scientific article published on 05 August 2020

Fungal trait‐environment relationships in wood‐inhabiting communities of boreal forest patches

scientific article published on 29 July 2024

Give me a sample of air and I will tell which species are found from your region: Molecular identification of fungi from airborne spore samples

scientific article published on 13 January 2018

Global Spore Sampling Project: A global, standardized dataset of airborne fungal DNA

scientific article published on 30 May 2024

HABITAT-SPECIFIC MOVEMENT PARAMETERS ESTIMATED USING MARK–RECAPTURE DATA AND A DIFFUSION MODEL

article

Habitat destruction, habitat restoration and eigenvector–eigenvalue relations

scientific article published on 01 February 2003

Habitat fragmentation and species diversity in competitive communities

scientific article published on 20 December 2019

Habitat quality is more important than matrix quality for bird communities in protected areas.

scientific article published on 25 March 2018

Handbook for the measurement of macrofungal functional traits: A start with basidiomycete wood fungi

scientific article published on 10 November 2018

Hierarchical Metapopulation Dynamics of Two Aphid Species on a Shared Host Plant

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Hierarchical metapopulation dynamics of two aphid species on a shared host plant

scientific article published on September 2009

Higher host plant specialization of root-associated endophytes than mycorrhizal fungi along an arctic elevational gradient

scientific article published on 06 August 2020

High‐resolution 3D forest structure explains ecomorphological trait variation in assemblages of saproxylic beetles

scientific article published on 8 October 2022

Home-range use patterns and movements of the Siberian flying squirrel in urban forests: Effects of habitat composition and connectivity.

scientific article published on 17 February 2016

Host plant availability drives the spatio-temporal dynamics of interacting metapopulations across a fragmented landscape

scientific article published on 06 September 2020

How are species interactions structured in species-rich communities? A new method for analysing time-series data

scientific article published in May 2017

How much does an individual habitat fragment contribute to metapopulation dynamics and persistence?

article

How to make more out of community data? A conceptual framework and its implementation as models and software

scientific article

Identifying wood-inhabiting fungi with 454 sequencing – what is the probability that BLAST gives the correct species?

article

Immigration-extinction dynamics of stochastic populations ⬇️

scientific article published on July 19, 2013

Increased propensity for aerial dispersal in disturbed habitats due to intraspecific variation and species turnover

article

Inferring evolutionary signals from ecological data in a plant-pathogen metapopulation

scientific article

Interactions between dispersal, competition, and landscape heterogeneity

scientific article published in 2007

Interactions between dispersal, competition, and landscape heterogeneity

Interactions between soil- and dead wood-inhabiting fungal communities during the decay of Norway spruce logs

scientific article

Invasion rate of deer ked depends on spatiotemporal variation in host density

scientific article published on 13 February 2014

Joint Species Distribution Modelling

scientific article

Joint Species Movement Modeling: How Do Traits Influence Movements?

scientific article published in April 2019

Joint species distribution modelling with the r-package Hmsc

scientific article published on 23 January 2020

Joint species movement modeling: how do traits influence movements?

scientific article published on 21 February 2019

LOCAL ADAPTATION IN A CHANGING WORLD: THE ROLES OF GENE-FLOW, MUTATION, AND SEXUAL REPRODUCTION

article

Land-use changes lead to functional loss of terrestrial mammals in a Neotropical rainforest

scientific article published on 26 February 2021

Landscape fragmentation overturns classical metapopulation thinking

Large-Scale Habitat Corridors for Biodiversity Conservation: A Forest Corridor in Madagascar

scientific article published on 22 July 2015

Local eukaryotic and bacterial stream community assembly is shaped by regional land use effects

scientific article published on 26 June 2023

Long-Term Persistence of Species and the SLOSS Problem

Long-term persistence of species and the SLOSS problem

scientific article

Long-term shifts in water quality show scale-dependent bioindicator responses across Russia – Insights from 40 year-long bioindicator monitoring program

scientific article published in March 2019

Macrosystem community change in lake phytoplankton and its implications for diversity and function

scientific article published on 4 March 2022

Making more out of sparse data: hierarchical modeling of species communities ⬇️

scientific article published on February 1, 2011

Maternal effects and environmental filtering shape seed fungal communities in oak trees

scientific article published on 3 July 2019

Maternal effects shape the seed mycobiome in Quercus petraea

scientific article published on 20 December 2020

Mathematical and simulation methods for deriving extinction thresholds in spatial and stochastic models of interacting agents

scientific article published on 21 October 2020

Mathematical tools for planning effective intervention scenarios for sexually transmitted diseases

scientific article published in May 2003

Measuring and predicting the influence of traits on the assembly processes of wood‐inhabiting fungi

scientific article published on 14 December 2016

Measuring, comparing and interpreting phenotypic selection on floral scent

scientific article published in 2022

Metapopulation models for extinction threshold in spatially correlated landscapes

scientific article published in March 2002

Metapopulation theory for fragmented landscapes

scientific article

Modeling species co-occurrence by multivariate logistic regression generates new hypotheses on fungal interactions

scientific article

Modelling dispersal with diffusion and habitat selection: Analytical results for highly fragmented landscapes

scientific article published in 2009

Modelling single nucleotide effects in phosphoglucose isomerase on dispersal in the Glanville fritillary butterfly: coupling of ecological and evolutionary dynamics

scientific article published on June 2009

Morphological traits predict host-tree specialization in wood-inhabiting fungal communities

scientific article

Movement of forest‐dependent dung beetles through riparian buffers in Bornean oil palm plantations

scientific article

Movement syndromes of a Neotropical frugivorous bat inhabiting heterogeneous landscapes in Brazil

scientific article published on 07 July 2021

Nonlinear effects of climate on boreal rodent dynamics: mild winters do not negate high-amplitude cycles

scientific article

Novel Insights into the Map Stage of True Navigation in Nonmigratory Wild Birds (Stone Curlews, Burhinus oedicnemus).

scientific article published on 19 April 2016

PROTAX-Sound: A probabilistic framework for automated animal sound identification.

scientific article published on September 2017

Patterns of abundance and movement in relation to landscape structure: a study of a common scarab (Canthon cyanellus cyanellus) in Southern Mexico

scientific article published in 2007

Post-fledging movements of white-tailed eagles: Conservation implications for wind-energy development.

scientific article published on 26 April 2016

Predation on two vole species by a shared predator: antipredatory response and prey preference

article

Predator-vole interactions in Northern Europe: the role of small mustelids revised

scientific article published in 2014

Protax -fungi: a web-based tool for probabilistic taxonomic placement of fungal internal transcribed spacer sequences

scientific article published on 23 July 2018

Prototype Biodiversity Digital Twin: Forest Biodiversity Dynamics

scientific article published on 17 June 2024

Prototype Biodiversity Digital Twin: Real-time bird monitoring with citizen-science data

scientific article published on 20 June 2024

Quantitative Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

scholarly article published 1 May 2016

Refining Predictions of Metacommunity Dynamics by Modeling Species Non‐independence

scientific article published in 2020

Refining predictions of metacommunity dynamics by modelling species non-independence

scientific article published on 16 April 2020

Reintroduction of threatened fungal species via inoculation

article published in 2016

Responses of generalist and specialist species to fragmented landscapes

scientific article published on 16 August 2018

Roots and Associated Fungi Drive Long-Term Carbon Sequestration in Boreal Forest

scientific article published in Science

SPIKEPIPE: A metagenomic pipeline for the accurate quantification of eukaryotic species occurrences and intraspecific abundance change using DNA barcodes or mitogenomes

scientific article published on 07 August 2019

Saproxylic beetle assemblages in recently dead Scots pines: How traits modulate species’ response to forest management?

scientific article published on 20 June 2020

Scaling up the effects of inbreeding depression from individuals to metapopulations

scientific article published on 26 June 2019

Scavenging in the realm of senses: smell and vision drive recruitment at carcasses in Neotropical ecosystems

scientific article published on 9 November 2022

Secondary forest regeneration benefits old-growth specialist bats in a fragmented tropical landscape.

scientific article published on 28 February 2018

Shell deformation states and the finite element method: A benchmark study of cylindrical shells

Size and genetic composition of the colonizing propagules in a butterfly metapopulation

article

So Many Variables: Joint Modeling in Community Ecology.

scientific article published on 27 October 2015

Soil fertility in boreal forest relates to root-driven nitrogen retention and carbon sequestration in the mor layer

scholarly article by Julia Kyaschenko et al published 3 October 2018 in New Phytologist

Some like it hot: microclimatic variation affects the abundance and movements of a critically endangered dung beetle

Space and stochasticity in population dynamics

scholarly article

Spatial Memory Drives Foraging Strategies of Wolves, but in Highly Individual Ways

scientific article published on 14 March 2022

Spatial cumulant models enable spatially informed treatment strategies and analysis of local interactions in cancer systems

scientific article published on 8 May 2022

Spatial location dominates over host plant genotype in structuring an herbivore community

article

Spatial location dominates over host plant genotype in structuring an herbivore community.

scientific article published in September 2010

Spatial population structure of a specialist leaf-mining moth

scientific article published on 14 April 2008

Spatial synchrony is related to environmental change in Finnish moth communities

scientific article published on 27 May 2020

Spatially structured metapopulation models: global and local assessment of metapopulation capacity

scientific article published on December 2001

Spatio-temporal patterns of habitat use in voles and shrews modified by density, season and predators

scientific article published in 2012

Spatio‐temporal scaling of biodiversity in acoustic tropical bird communities

scientific article published on 9 September 2019

Specialist species of wood-inhabiting fungi struggle while generalists thrive in fragmented boreal forests

article

Species associations during the succession of wood-inhabiting fungal communities

article

Species traits and inertial deposition of fungal spores

article

Spore sensitivity to sunlight and freezing can restrict dispersal in wood-decay fungi

scientific article published on 22 July 2015

State-space models of individual animal movement

scientific article published on 11 January 2008

Statistical ecology comes of age

scientific article

Stochastic models of population extinction

scientific article published on 31 August 2010

Structure and stability of genetic variance-covariance matrices: A Bayesian sparse factor analysis of transcriptional variation in the three-spined stickleback.

scientific article published on 26 July 2017

Summer movements, predation and habitat use of wolves in human modified boreal forests

article

Temperature effects on the temporal dynamics of a subarctic invertebrate community

scientific article published on 9 March 2021

Temporal turnover of the soil microbiome composition is guild‐specific

scientific article

Testing a mechanistic dispersal model against a dispersal experiment with a wind-dispersed moss

scientific article published in 2014

Testing the heterospecific attraction hypothesis with time-series data on species co-occurrence.

scientific article published on 12 May 2010

The Effective Size of a Metapopulation Living in a Heterogeneous Patch Network

scholarly article by Otso Ovaskainen published November 2002 in The American Naturalist

The Ghost of the Hawk: Top Predator Shaping Bird Communities in Space and Time

scientific article

The dual role of rivers in facilitating or hindering movements of the false heath fritillary butterfly

scientific article published on 16 February 2015

The effective size of a metapopulation living in a heterogeneous patch network

scientific article published in November 2002

The metapopulation capacity of a fragmented landscape

scientific article published on April 2000

The microbiome of the Melitaea cinxia butterfly shows marked variation but is only little explained by the traits of the butterfly or its host plant

scientific article published on 09 September 2019

The past and the present in decision-making: the use of conspecific and heterospecific cues in nest site selection

scientific article (publication date: December 2014)

The quasistationary distribution of the stochastic logistic model

article

The relative importance of local and regional processes to metapopulation dynamics

scientific article published on 02 December 2019

The role of seasonality in shaping the interactions of honeybees with other taxa

scientific article published in 2023

The species-area relationship derived from species-specific incidence functions

article

Towards a general formalization of encounter rates in ecology

scientific article published in 2012

Tracking butterfly movements with harmonic radar reveals an effect of population age on movement distance

scholarly article

Traits mediate niches and co‐occurrences of forest beetles in ways that differ among bioclimatic regions

scientific article

Transient Dynamics in Metapopulation Response to Perturbation

article

Unbiased probabilistic taxonomic classification for DNA barcoding

scientific article

Uncovering hidden spatial structure in species communities with spatially explicit joint species distribution models

article

Using latent variable models to identify large networks of species-to-species associations at different spatial scales

article

Variation in Melitaea cinxia gut microbiota is phylogenetically highly structured but only mildly driven by host plant microbiota, sex or parasitism

article

Variation in migration propensity among individuals maintained by landscape structure

scientific article published in 2004

What can observational data reveal about metacommunity processes?

scientific article published in 2019

Wood-inhabiting fungi with tight associations with other species have declined as a response to forest management

scientific article published in 2016

driftsel: an R package for detecting signals of natural selection in quantitative traits

scientific article published on 09 May 2013

‘Strict’, yet ineffective: legal protection of breeding sites and resting places fails with the Siberian flying squirrel

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