A guide to ecosystem models and their environmental applications

WL Geary, M Bode, TS Doherty, EA Fulton… - Nature Ecology & …, 2020 - nature.com
Applied ecology has traditionally approached management problems through a simplified,
single-species lens. Repeated failures of single-species management have led us to a new …

Refocusing multiple stressor research around the targets and scales of ecological impacts

BI Simmons, PSA Blyth, JL Blanchard… - Nature Ecology & …, 2021 - nature.com
Ecological communities face a variety of environmental and anthropogenic stressors acting
simultaneously. Stressor impacts can combine additively or can interact, causing synergistic …

Interactive effects of multiple stressors vary with consumer interactions, stressor dynamics and magnitude

MP Turschwell, SR Connolly, RB Schäfer… - Ecology …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Predicting the impacts of multiple stressors is important for informing ecosystem
management but is impeded by a lack of a general framework for predicting whether …

Analysis of sloppiness in model simulations: Unveiling parameter uncertainty when mathematical models are fitted to data

GM Monsalve-Bravo, BAJ Lawson, C Drovandi… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
This work introduces a comprehensive approach to assess the sensitivity of model outputs to
changes in parameter values, constrained by the combination of prior beliefs and data. This …

Missing interactions: The current state of multispecies connectivity analysis

SLR Wood, KT Martins, V Dumais-Lalonde… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Designing effective habitat and protected area networks, which sustain species-rich
communities is a critical conservation challenge. Recent decades have witnessed the …

Bridging the divide between ecological forecasts and environmental decision making

K Bodner, C Rauen Firkowski, JR Bennett… - …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The rate of human‐induced environmental change continues to accelerate, stimulating the
need for rapid and science‐based decision making. The recent availability of …

Recent advances of quantitative modeling to support invasive species eradication on islands

CM Baker, M Bode - Conservation Science and Practice, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The eradication of invasive species from islands is an important part of managing these
ecologically unique and at‐risk regions. Island eradications are complex projects and …

Evaluating unintended consequences of intentional species introductions and eradications for improved conservation management

DE Pearson, TJ Clark, PG Hahn - Conservation Biology, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Increasingly intensive strategies to maintain biodiversity and ecosystem function are being
deployed in response to global anthropogenic threats, including intentionally introducing …

Structural forecasting of species persistence under changing environments

S Saavedra, LP Medeiros, M AlAdwani - Ecology letters, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The persistence of a species in a given place not only depends on its intrinsic capacity to
consume and transform resources into offspring, but also on how changing environmental …

Decision‐making under uncertainty for species introductions into ecological networks

LB Van Kleunen, KA Peterson, MT Hayden… - Ecology …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Ecological communities are increasingly subject to natural and human‐induced additions of
species, as species shift their ranges under climate change, are introduced for conservation …