Recently, researchers in several areas of ecology and evolution have begun to change the
way in which they analyze data and make biological inferences. Rather than the traditional …

We argue that population growth rate is the key unifying variable linking the various facets of
population ecology. The importance of population growth rate lies partly in its central role in …

Population ecology has matured to a sophisticated science with astonishing potential for
contributing solutions to wildlife conservation and management challenges. And yet, much …

We describe a discrete‐time, stochastic population model with density dependence,
environmental‐type process noise, and lognormal observation or sampling error. The …

Population limitation is a fundamental tenet of ecology, but the relative roles of exogenous
and endogenous mechanisms remain unquantified for most species. Here we used multi …

Recent studies uncover cascading ecological effects resulting from removing and
reintroducing predators into a landscape, but little is known about effects on human lives …

Statistical methods emphasizing formal hypothesis testing have dominated the analyses
used by ecologists to gain insight from data. Here, we review alternatives to hypothesis …

Summary 1 A major paradigm shift is occurring in the approach of ecologists to statistical
analysis. The use of the traditional approach of null‐hypothesis testing has been questioned …

Publisher Summary This chapter reviews studies that have analyzed the effects of local
weather and large-scale climate phenomenon on fluctuations in the size of bird populations …

A defining hypothesis of theoretical ecology during the past century has been that
population fluctuations might largely be explained by relatively low‐dimensional, nonlinear …