The Place of Modelling in Ecology

Łomnicki, Adam

doi:10.2307/3565240

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“…In the fourth cluster the highest frequency is found for «model» that is linked to «dynamic», «meta‐population», «predict» or «spatio‐temporal». Models have been used in ecology for a long time and are considered part of the scientific progress (Lomnicki 1988). However, the fast evolution of numerical methods and computing power have boosted the application of model approaches.…”

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Trend words in ecological core journals over the last 25 years (1978–2002)

Nobis

Wohlgemuth

2004

Oikos

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Ecological research has been repeatedly criticized for its general lack of progress. While it has proved difficult to reveal scientific progress, from a subjective view trends in ecology seems evident. In order to objectively detect principal trends in this broad discipline during the past 25 years (1978–2002), we performed several word and co‐word analyses on titles and abstracts of articles that appeared in five core journals of ecology: «Ecology», «Oecologia», «Oikos», «Journal of Animal Ecology» and «Journal of Ecology». A general time gradient in the use of words was evident and words with a positive trend dominated. Trend words derived from article titles were used to perform co‐word analyses on abstracts available since 1991. Besides a trend towards the study of processes most important ecological fields found are landscape ecology, biodiversity, ecosystem research, modelling, and food‐web/predator–prey interactions. A semantic map of trend words was built by ordination. In the map, words formed a continuous space with the three thematic directions «biotic», «abiotic» and «temporal & spatial» representing the classic aspects of ecological research. With respect to the obvious trends and features derived from our analyses, we suggest that the results represent real scientific progress in ecology as a pluralistic, multi‐aspect and multiple‐causation discipline. Such a progress could hardly be observed from details in sub‐disciplines.

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Trend words in ecological core journals over the last 25 years (1978–2002)

Nobis

Wohlgemuth

2004

Oikos

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“…Originally, the remains from the Pleistocene peatbog or asphalt deposits were assigned to extinct species by historical authors (e.g. Łomnicki 1894, Grinell 1908, Orchymont 1927, Pierce 1946, 1948, 1949, 1954, Scudder 1900), supporting the idea of a high evolutionary rate induced by the climate changes during the Pleistocene. Later, more detailed studies of subfossil specimens sometimes based even on the study of their well-preserved genitalia revealed that the majority of Pleistocene subfossil beetles belong to recent species (Elias 2010; for examples of taxonomic revisions see e.g., Darlington 1938, Angus 1973, 1997, Miller and Peck 1979, Doyen and Miller 1980, Miller et al 1981) and resulted in the Pleistocene evolutionary stasis paradigm (Coope 1970, 2004).…”

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A long-living species of the hydrophiloid beetles: Helophorus sibiricus from the early Miocene deposits of Kartashevo (Siberia, Russia)

Fikáček¹,

Прокин²,

Angus³

2011

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The recent hydrophiloid species Helophorus (Gephelophorus) sibiricus (Motschulsky, 1860) is recorded from the early Miocene deposits of Kartashevo assigned to the Ombinsk Formation. A detailed comparison with recent specimens allowed a confident identification of the fossil specimen, which is therefore the oldest record of a recent species for the Hydrophiloidea. The paleodistribution as well as recent distribution of the species is summarized, and the relevance of the fossil is discussed. In addition, the complex geological settings of the Kartashevo area are briefly summarized.

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“…As a result, the breeding and success probabilities decline regardless of the complex individuals belong to, and differences in vital rates among life history complexes are larger when sea ice conditions are extremely low. Low sea ice conditions could intensify intra-competition for uneven resources and reveal differences among individuals of different “quality” [24, 39, 40, 1, 41].…”

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When the going gets tough, the tough get going: effect of extreme climate on an Antarctic seabird’s life history

Jenouvrier¹,

Aubry²,

Daalen³

et al. 2019

Preprint

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1AbstractIndividuals differ in many ways. Most produce few offspring; a handful produce many. Some die early; others live to old age. It is tempting to attribute these differences in out-comes to differences in individual traits, and thus in the demographic rates experienced. However, there is more to individual variation than meets the eye of the biologist. Even among individuals sharing identical traits, life history outcomes will vary due to individual stochasticity, i.e., to chance. Quantifying the contributions of heterogeneity and chance is essential to understanding natural variability. Inter-individual differences vary across environmental conditions. Heterogeneity and stochasticity depend on environmental conditions. We show that favorable conditions increase the contributions of individual stochasticity, and reduce the contributions of heterogeneity, to variance in demographic outcomes in a seabird population. The opposite is true under poor conditions. This result has important consequence for understanding the ecology and evolution of life history strategies.

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The Place of Modelling in Ecology

Cited by 23 publications

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Trend words in ecological core journals over the last 25 years (1978–2002)

Trend words in ecological core journals over the last 25 years (1978–2002)

A long-living species of the hydrophiloid beetles: Helophorus sibiricus from the early Miocene deposits of Kartashevo (Siberia, Russia)

When the going gets tough, the tough get going: effect of extreme climate on an Antarctic seabird’s life history

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