Paper published, led by Forest Isbell.
We developed a new theoretical framework to predict how temporal stability and resilience emerge from the combined effects of resistance and recovery.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
New predictions for how temporal stability and resilience depend on their resistance and recovery components are explored.
Fifty years since a simple equation described the chaos of biology 🧪🌐 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Really cool - "Stocks must therefore be orbiting the [shared] attractor asynchronously to produce the observed uncorrelated fluctuations." Inspiring statement.
New in @pnas.org: Ecological stability through nonlinear fluctuations and the portfolio effect
We show that nonlinear dynamics like oscillations and chaos are paradoxically key to stabilizing globally important salmon complexes in the Fraser River and Bristol Bay.
Link: doi.org/10.1073/pnas... 🌐🐟
New in @pnas.org: Ecological stability through nonlinear fluctuations and the portfolio effect
We show that nonlinear dynamics like oscillations and chaos are paradoxically key to stabilizing globally important salmon complexes in the Fraser River and Bristol Bay.
Link: doi.org/10.1073/pnas... 🌐🐟
Check out the accompanying Research Briefing for a summary of background, methods, main results and what we think this means for marine fishes under climate change.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1038/s415...
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A global analysis of marine fish populations involving 243 recruitment and 266 spawner time series across 143 species finds that nonlinear dynamics are widespread and that the degree of nonlinearity is amplified by temperature variation and in fast-lived species 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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An exploration of chaos theory in population dynamics showed that unpredictable systems can often be modelled using surprisingly simple mathematics.
A global analysis of marine fish populations involving 243 recruitment and 266 spawner time series across 143 species finds that nonlinear dynamics are widespread and that the degree of nonlinearity i...
Analysis of marine fish populations reveals that nonlinear dynamics are widespread and that the degree of nonlinearity is elevated by high temperature variation and for species with fast life historie...
New in @natecoevo.nature.com, we show that nonlinear dynamics like oscillations & chaos occur in 81% of marine fish populations worldwide. Nonlinearity was correlated with the magnitude of fluctuations & amplified by temperature variation & in fast-lived species. 🌍🌐
Link: doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Robert M. Hechler
A global analysis of marine fish populations involving 243 recruitment and 266 spawner time series across 143 species finds that nonlinear dynamics are widespread and that the degree of nonlinearity i...
