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Quantitative Ecologist.
https://aterui.github.io/aquaecolab/
New paper out from our group - Body Size and Local Density Explain Movement Patterns in Stream Fishes - LaRoque - 2026 - Ecology and Evolution - Wiley Online Library
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Body Size and Local Density Explain Movement Patterns in Stream Fishes
We evaluated whether body size (intrinsic) and intra- and interspecific densities (extrinsic) have an impact on the movement rates of four fish species in a small stream. We found that larger individ....
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ece3.72996
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Modeling and inferring metacommunity dynamics with Maximum Caliber | PNAS
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PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2520867123
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Catalysts and inhibitors of critical transitions in ecological systems | PNAS
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PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2516856122
29 days ago
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Mercurial Muse Art
about 1 month ago
I painted this in 2020 following a tutorial. It seemed so silly to paint a puddle but by the time I was done, the puddle became one of my favorite pictures. Nice how something so mundane can be beautiful.
#art
#artsky
#landscape
#bskyart
#painting
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アメリカに9年もいることに気がつき驚愕している。英語のコンプレックスが消えることはない。
about 1 month ago
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Julian Olden
2 months ago
Unraveling multipredator impacts in salmon-bearing rivers using quantitative DNA metabarcoding. A wonderful collaboration with
@jwinkfish.bsky.social
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@uwsafs.bsky.social
@uwenvironment.bsky.social
@uwfreshwater.bsky.social
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This is when I realize I can’t even pronounce my own name right
2 months ago
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アユ遡上数が２０年で５倍に！ 漁協、研究者、ダム管理者が連携 産卵場造りに効果 高知県の奈半利川（高知新聞／会員記事）
www.kochinews.co.jp/article/deta...
｜「研究者や上流のダム管理会社と連携して取り組むアユの産卵場造りが、開始から２０年」「ダムの影響で一時は激減した奈半利川の遡上数は５倍まで回復」
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アユ遡上数が２０年で５倍に！ 漁協、研究者、ダム管理者が連携 産卵場造りに効果 高知県の奈半利川 | 高知新聞
高橋勇夫代表（手前右）らと奈半利川の底を踏みならす参加者たち（奈半利町乙） 奈半利川淡水漁協（林田千秋組合長）が、研究者や上流のダム管理会社と連携して取り組むアユの産卵場造りが、開始から２０年を迎えた。ダムの影響で一時は激減した奈半利川の遡...
https://www.kochinews.co.jp/article/detail/937084
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Sending off the first Ph.D from my lab is such a grateful experience, though bittersweet. Best wishes Dr. LaRoque!
3 months ago
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Ecological Research
3 months ago
<DATA ARTICLE>
#OpenAccess
GFID: A Global Fish Invasion Database Phillip J. Haubrock et al, @skatsanevakis.bsky.socia
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aquatic ecosystems/ biogeography/ biological invasion/ global database/ invasive species
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Observing network dynamics through sentinel nodes - Nature Communications
Observing the state of a complex network appears to require a prohibitive amount of information. Here, authors develop an algorithm to detect sentinel nodes: a small number of nodes that track the equ...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-64975-x
3 months ago
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25051 ‘mixglm': an R package for estimation of stable states, tipping points, and ecosystem resilience using mixture models
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https://nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ecog.08148?campaign=wolearlyview
3 months ago
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The Wesner Lab
4 months ago
Postdoc position in Freshwater Ecology starting Spring 2026:
yourfuture.sdbor.edu/postings/45968
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Postdoctoral Researcher, Biology
Postdoctoral Researcher: A Postdoctoral Research Associate position is available at the University of South Dakota in Dr. Jeff Wesner’s lab in the Department of Biology. The NSF-funded project will ex...
https://yourfuture.sdbor.edu/postings/45968
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Jonas Wickman
about 2 years ago
Delighted to announce our new paper in Science.
@chrisklausmeier.bsky.social
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@elenalitchman.bsky.social
, and I show how power-law scaling at the micro (individual) level is translated by eco-evolutionary dynamics into power-law scaling at the macro (food-web) level. 1/5
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Eco-evolutionary emergence of macroecological scaling in plankton communities
Eco-evolutionary dynamics informed by allometric scaling can predict large-scale patterns across planktonic food webs.
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adk6901
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Rose Mohammadi
4 months ago
How vulnerable are riparian trees to drought? Using groundwater and satellite data from a California waterhsed, our new paper found that trees by drying rivers lost up to 5 weeks of growing season, suggesting they’re nearing critical groundwater limits.
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Groundwater and Remotely Sensed Phenology Reveal Vulnerability of Riparian Trees to Drought
We asked how vulnerable riparian trees are to droughts, examining their water use and growing season timing and duration via groundwater data and satellite imagery. Drought shortened the growing seas...
https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.70564
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Rにまつわる怖い話をいくつか書いてみました。lmerのデフォルト設定がREML=TRUEとなっており、モデル選択できない使用になっているのに気づかず、やらかしてしまっている論文はかなり多いのでは、、と思ってます。
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Rの怖い話
モデル選択できないGLMM 複数マッチのエラーがでない “sample” surprise なんとなく使っていると痛い目にあうRのデフォルト設定。 モデル選択できないGLMM GLMMで解析する際、lme4::lmer()（あるいはlme4::glmer()）を使うことは多い。しかし、これらの関数はデフォルト設定ではモデル選択できない。なぜなら、デフォルトでREML = TRUE（制限付き最尤...
https://ecological-stats.netlify.app/2025/10/26/r-scary-story/
4 months ago
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Albert Ruhí
5 months ago
Does tidal marsh
#restoration
"work", if the goal is bringing back key species AND the trophic interactions that support them? A thousand stable isotope samples later, we have answers! 💯 work by PhD student Megan Pagliaro:
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#SanFrancisco
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Does tidal marsh restoration lead to the recovery of trophic pathways that support estuarine fishes?
Evaluation of tidal marsh restoration success is typically based on the recovery of habitat size and target species. However, food-web structure may provide valuable insight into ecosystem functionin...
https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/eap.70110
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Anthony Ricciardi
5 months ago
Attempted eradication of smallmouth bass promotes rapid evolution. Here's the study that is the focus of the Scientific American article:
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Prof Helen Bostock
5 months ago
Diversity in research. How can we take into account the extra burden of publishing in English for those who are not native speakers? With AI can we now translate and look at publications from any language?
@tatsuya-amano.bsky.social
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Who gets to do science? A demand for English is hurting marginalised researchers
Everyone, no matter their background, should have an equal chance to work in science – but there are huge systemic barriers.
https://theconversation.com/who-gets-to-do-science-a-demand-for-english-is-hurting-marginalised-researchers-264493?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwZnRzaANXm-9leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHvReOxyZZIh0OcsOMnq8BtWLOE9v7f_j5JyaHJI1Jv6e8BGgROHpuOD0k-59_aem_5nanFOMiWo9PXu6qb8eLTw#Echobox=1760190644
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データやコードのバージョン管理もまともにしていないプロジェクトをみるとオエッてなる。
5 months ago
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一年近くかけてScienceにRejectされた悲しみを何にたとえよう。
5 months ago
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Albert Ruhí
5 months ago
Curious about how droughts alter mountain stream biodiversity - and why space-for-time substitution is not always a good idea when studying climate change impacts in rivers? Read our latest lab paper, led by Kyle Leathers in Ecological Monographs!
@esajournals.bsky.social
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Ecological pathways connecting riverine drought to community change across space and time
Climate change is intensifying droughts via reduced snowpack and accelerated snowmelt in high mountains globally, altering community structure in snow-dependent rivers. To predict impending ecologica...
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ecm.70035
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25052 Warming threatens aquatic–terrestrial linkages: evidence from tropical geothermal streams - Lopes - Oikos - Wiley Online Library
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25-051 Parasites alter community structure | PNAS
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Parasites alter community structure | PNAS
Parasites often play an important role in modifying the physiology and behavior of their hosts and may, consequently, mediate the influence hosts h...
https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.0700062104
6 months ago
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American Naturalist / ASN 🐌
6 months ago
Novak et al. derive a functional response model that unifies Holling’s classical forms. The model clarifies when linearity can be a mechanistically-reasoned description of predator feeding rates and the impact it has on predator-prey dynamics. Read now!
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In Defense of Type I Functional Responses: The Frequency and Population Dynamic Effects of Feeding on Multiple Prey at a Time | The American Naturalist
Abstract Ecologists differ in the degree to which they consider the linear type I functional response to be an unrealistic versus sufficient representation of predator feeding rates. Empiricists tend ...
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/737023
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Quantifying community keystoneness in metacommunities under disturbance
Understanding how metacommunities respond to natural and anthropogenic disturbances is a key objective in ecology. In this study, we introduce an analytical framework to identify communities whose ex...
https://nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/oik.11163
6 months ago
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25049 Evidence That Metapopulation Dynamics Maintain a Species' Range Limit - Gillies - 2025 - Ecology Letters - Wiley Online Library
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Evidence That Metapopulation Dynamics Maintain a Species' Range Limit
The metapopulation hypothesis for species range limits posits that a range limit may be imposed by subtle variation in rates of either patch colonisation or extinction. Using a multi-year survey acro...
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ele.70128
6 months ago
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Trophic convergence of marine vertebrate communities worldwide | PNAS
Biogeographic regions arise due to constraints on species ranges, fostering lineage divergence as a result. Yet, convergent evolution means that ev...
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2403754122
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2025047 This is the most interesting one among those I've read this year - novel idea, solid data, and clear writing - a lot to learn from this paper
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Herring spawned poleward following fishery-induced collective memory loss - Nature
A critically low abundance of older herring due to age-selective fisheries resulted in an approximately 800-km poleward shift in main spawning.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08983-3
6 months ago
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PopBio on the Dark Side
6 months ago
Shaopeng Wang will present the next PopBio seminar: "Biodiversity and Ecosystem Stability Across Spatial and Temporal Scales" Join us online, Thursday August 28 1pm AEST. These seminars are open to all! Sign up to our mailing list to receive the zoom link:
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Inferring the role of habitat heterogeneity in SLOSS (single large or several small) for beetles, spiders, and birds in forest reserves
Global conservation strategies aim to increase the area of nature reserves. To implement this goal, especially in fragmented landscapes like Central E…
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0006320725004409
6 months ago
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Rupert Seidl
6 months ago
Several small reserves hold more beetle, spider and bird species than a single large reserve of the same size in Central Europe, with habitat heterogeneity being an important driver. First PhD paper by Anne Huber (not on Bsky), w/
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Nobuaki Mizumoto
7 months ago
I'm looking for a graduate student (either PhD or master's) to join my lab starting Jan 2026. If you know any students in social behavior and evolution (and termites!), please let them know!
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Counteracting Cascades Challenge the Heterogeneity—Stability Relationship
This study challenges the long-standing assumption that environmental heterogeneity inherently promotes ecological stability, using a 3-year field experiment on rocky shores. By unveiling four distin...
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/ele.70158
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Temporal niche differentiation often leads to priority effects rather than coexistence: Lessons from a marine midge
When organisms use similar resources but at a different time, it is not obvious whether they can divide their temporal niches in a coexistence promoting manner or of something else should happen. Thi....
https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1365-2656.70094
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Molecular assessment of food web dynamics identifies critical periods for managing resilience in biological pest control
Food webs are not static over time, but our knowledge of their dynamics is extremely scarce due to methodological challenges. In turn, this significantly limits our ability to mechanistically underst...
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/eap.70078
7 months ago
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広江礼威
7 months ago
あんた最高だよ
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【社会】ウェディングドレス炎上で、尊いものが確かに見える｜いぷしろ
今日もツイッターでは炎上が起きる。 いつもあそこは燃えている。最前線だ。 あわせて俺のnote記事も燃やそうとしているが、なかなかうまくいかない。 そんな中、今日も読みに来てくれた君に感謝したい。 今ホットな話題は、元ＡＶ女優の「三上悠亜」さんが、ボートレースのイベントでウェディングドレスを着たことについて、ある女性が苦言を呈したことだ。 その女性は、三上悠亜さんが来たドレスと同じものを、結婚...
https://note.com/ipusiro/n/nd5010a494825
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Agricultural land around river confluences could strongly suppress floods occurrences - ScienceDirect
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Agricultural land around river confluences could strongly suppress floods occurrences
Flooding poses a significant threat to socioeconomic systems, with risks expected to escalate in the future due to factors such as climate change and …
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2665972724002010
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Global modules robustly emerge from local interactions and smooth gradients - Nature
The principle of peak selection is described, by which local interactions and smooth gradients drive self-organization of discrete global modules.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08541-3
7 months ago
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Limited evidence for range shift–driven extinction in mountain biota | Science
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Limited evidence for range shift–driven extinction in mountain biota
Mountain biodiversity reorganizes rapidly as species shift upslope to track temperatures. Pervasive species redistribution poses substantial threats to mountain ecosystems, a phenomenon sometimes desc...
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adq9512
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25039 Resource quantity and quality co‐limit consumer production in forest streams - Demi - 2025 - Ecology - Wiley Online Library
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Resource quantity and quality co‐limit consumer production in forest streams
Ecological theory predicts that consumers should be co-limited by resource quantity and quality, given widespread consumer-resource nutritional imbalances. We used 25 estimates of annual community se...
https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ecy.70163?campaign=woletoc
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Scott F Collins
7 months ago
Asymmetric competition among stream fishes: Do food web pathways affect competitive outcomes? - George - 2024 - Ecosphere - Wiley Online Library
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Please check out our paper! Share too!
#invasivespecies
#ecology
#foodweb
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Asymmetric competition among stream fishes: Do food web pathways affect competitive outcomes?
Limiting resources are often unevenly distributed among competing consumers, as larger, more aggressive, fast growing, early emerging, or rapidly reproducing species disproportionately exploit food o...
https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ecs2.4858
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George H. Allen
9 months ago
Hydrologists! Ever heard of a Spatial Hydrograph? Our new paper in
@agu.org
GRL shows that the SWOT satellite can capture spatial flow waves propagating down rivers—something previously only only observable at river gauges:
doi.org/10.1029/2024...
#SWOT
#hydrology
#RemoteSensing
#EarthObservation
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Matthew Holden 🏳️🌈
8 months ago
Please share: PhD scholarship opportunity in mathematical ecology on the value of information for improving ecological management, open to international students, with a great team
@hugepossum.bsky.social
, Katriona Shea, Kate Helmstedt, & me at UQ, Australia 🌍 🧮,
study.uq.edu.au/study-option...
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The value of information for ecological management
https://study.uq.edu.au/study-options/phd-mphil-professional-doctorate/projects/value-information-ecological-management
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Andrew Barnes
8 months ago
Interested in
#ecological
#theory
& live on this side of the world (Asia-Pacific)? Tune in to the
@pop-bio.bsky.social
seminar series! I'm speaking next on
#biodiversity
change,
#food-web
energetics and
#ecosystem
function. Register here:
forms.gle/7vEiUQKJqeUL...
🌐🌏🍁🧪
@newzealandecology.bsky.social
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Kelsey Hannah
9 months ago
Excited to share our new study on how language barriers affect conservation science. We found that non-English research especially in Hungarian, Polish, Korean & Russian is undercited in English, despite local impact. Read the full paper:
lnkd.in/gj7UDewC
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New paper from our lab (undergrad-led; Nice work Mason!) 🚨 Restored wetlands complement remnant streams by supplying aquatic prey at different times of year— extending foraging window for terrestrial consumers via a portfolio effect!
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Restoration of aquatic habitat complex extends the foraging window of terrestrial consumers
Cross-ecosystem linkages benefit generalist consumers by providing prey fluxes from donor habitats, but these trophic connections are highly vulnerabl…
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2351989425002252
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Global engineering effects of soil invertebrates on ecosystem functions - Nature
A meta-analysis of more than 1,000 studies reveals the global ecosystem functions provided by termites, ants and earthworms as they improve soil quality by making biogenic structures such as term...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08594-y
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When does greater mortality increase population size? The long history and diverse mechanisms underlying the hydra effect - Abrams - 2009 - Ecology Letters - Wiley Online Library
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When does greater mortality increase population size? The long history and diverse mechanisms underlying the hydra effect
The phenomenon of a population increasing in response to an increase in its per-capita mortality rate has recently been termed the ‘hydra effect’. This article reviews and unifies previous work on th...
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1461-0248.2009.01282.x
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