Importance Psychiatric disorders may come and go with symptoms changing over a lifetime.
This suggests the need for a paradigm shift in diagnosis and treatment. Here we present a …

Ecological data often show temporal, spatial, hierarchical (random effects), or phylogenetic
structure. Modern statistical approaches are increasingly accounting for such dependencies …

Genetic polymorphism varies among species and within genomes, and has important
implications for the evolution and conservation of species. The determinants of this variation …

Understanding the interplay of order and disorder in chaos is a central challenge in modern
quantitative science. Approximate linear representations of nonlinear dynamics have long …

INTRODUCTION Financial markets may collapse, rainforest can shift to savanna, a person
can become trapped in a depression, and the Gulf Stream can come to a standstill. Such …

Ecological resilience is the ability of a system to persist in the face of perturbations. Although
resilience has been a highly influential concept, its interpretation has remained largely …

A definitive guide to the depth and breadth of the ecological sciences, revised and updated
The revised and updated fifth edition of Ecology: From Individuals to Ecosystems–now in full …

Occasionally, surprisingly large shifts occur in ecosystems. Theory suggests that such shifts
can be attributed to alternative stable states. Verifying this diagnosis is important because it …

The rapid closure of the Venus flytrap (Dionaea muscipula) leaf in about 100 ms is one of
the fastest movements in the plant kingdom. This led Darwin to describe the plant as “one of …

Climate influences a variety of ecological processes. These effects operate through local
weather parameters such as temperature, wind, rain, snow, and ocean currents, as well as …