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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Quantitative ecology"”.
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Quantitative ecology reveals scale-dependent structural processes of the Antarctic benthos through time
Modern day benthic community composition and distribution in the Southern Ocean are influenced by a variety of environmental and evolutionary factors across different spatial scales. Depth, temperature, salinity, and sea ice impact community structure at large spatial scales (e.g., > 60 km). Far …
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Modeling Mutualism and Competition in Interactive Population Dynamics: How Ants and Aphids Affect Lycaenid Butterfly Ecology
… and complex problem in theoretical biology and quantitative ecology. Mutualistic interactions, which are generally considered relationships in which two or more species benefit from each other's presence, play a significant role in determining population dyanmics, and are essential to fully …
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Managing for long term sustainability of seafood production from bottom tendered wild capture fisheries
Bottom fishing is an important source of anthropogenic disturbance affecting seafloor habitats across the world’s continental shelves. Minimizing these disturbances is a key objective of ocean management; however, opportunities to meet this objective have been hampered by limited information on the …
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Diversity, variability and persistence elements for a non-equilibrium theory of eco-evolutionary dynamics
… in their environments is the subject matter of quantitative theoretical ecology. Under the framework of structural realism, the present dissertation project has advocated for the strategy of mathematical modeling as a strategy of abstraction. The goal is to explore if a range of natural …
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Using population ecology to inform the conservation of Nevada's rare plants
Population ecology is a fundamental tenet of conservation biology. Estimating population size is a necessary first step in assessing species vulnerability, and to the subsequent examination of population viability, prediction of extinction risks, and evaluation of conservation objectives. …