Climate-driven declines in arthropod abundance restructure a rainforest food web

BC Lister, A Garcia - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2018 - pnas.org
A number of studies indicate that tropical arthropods should be particularly vulnerable to
climate warming. If these predictions are realized, climate warming may have a more …

The shrinking resource base of pastoralism: Saami reindeer husbandry in a climate of change

NJC Tyler, I Hanssen-Bauer, EJ Førland… - … in sustainable food …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The productive performance of large ungulates in extensive pastoral grazing systems is
modulated simultaneously by the effects of climate change and human intervention …

Life‐history characteristics of mule deer: effects of nutrition in a variable environment

KL Monteith, VC Bleich, TR Stephenson… - Wildlife …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Vital rates of large herbivores normally respond to increased resource limitation by following
a progressive sequence of effects on life‐history characteristics from survival of young, age …

Regional and seasonal patterns of nutritional condition and reproduction in elk

RC Cook, JG Cook, DJ Vales, BK Johnson… - Wildlife …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Demographic data show many populations of Rocky Mountain (Cervus elaphus nelsoni)
and Roosevelt (Cervus elaphus roosevelti) elk have been declining over the last few …

A single climate driver has direct and indirect effects on insect population dynamics

CL Boggs, DW Inouye - Ecology Letters, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Ecology Letters (2012) 15: 502–508 Abstract Weather drives population dynamics directly,
through effects on vital rates, or indirectly, through effects on the population's competitors …

Are patterns of density dependence in the Global Population Dynamics Database driven by uncertainty about population abundance?

J Knape, P de Valpine - Ecology letters, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Ecology Letters (2011) 14: 17–23 Abstract Density dependence in population growth rates is
of immense importance to ecological theory and application, but is difficult to estimate. The …

Ability of matrix models to explain the past and predict the future of plant populations

EE Crone, MM Ellis, WF Morris, A Stanley… - Conservation …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Uncertainty associated with ecological forecasts has long been recognized, but forecast
accuracy is rarely quantified. We evaluated how well data on 82 populations of 20 species of …

Native predators reduce harvest of reindeer by Sámi pastoralists

NT Hobbs, H Andrén, J Persson… - Ecological …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Contemporary efforts to protect biological diversity recognize the importance of sustaining
traditional human livelihoods, particularly uses of the land that are compatible with intact …

Sedimentary unknowns constrain the current use of frequency analysis of radiocarbon data sets in forming regional models of demographic change

I Ward, P Larcombe - Geoarchaeology, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Statistical manipulation of large radiometric data sets (big data) is increasingly applied to
those grand challenges in archaeology that relate to past human‐behavioural dynamics and …

Solar wind—Magnetosphere coupling functions: Pitfalls, limitations, and applications

M Lockwood - Space weather, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Solar wind‐magnetosphere coupling functions have now been in use for almost 50 years. In
that time, a very large number of formulations have been proposed. As they become …