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A story of hotspots and stepping stones

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2 August 2017
A typical subarctic mountain trail, winding through a blueberry field (Vaccinium myrtillus).

By Jonas Lembrechts

The higher up you go in the mountains, the less common these new species become. At some point, often close to...

Structure in your data can undermine your model validations: the problem and some solutions

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13 July 2017

Statistical models in ecology are used not just to describe the present state of natural systems, but also to predict their change or development over time. Such models are fairly simple to create and have thus become ubiquitous in all areas of ecological research. To...

No longer a black box: how did Maxent go open-source?

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3 July 2017

By Mary E. Blair and Robert P. Anderson

 

Fifteen years ago, Steven Phillips, a computer science researcher at AT&T Labs from South Africa, walked a few blocks from his apartment in New York City to the American Museum of Natural...

Spatial variation in Allee effects influences patterns of range expansion

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10 June 2017
In simulations comparing a population spread in a spatially homogenous (left) versus patchy (right) landscapes, variation in the Allee effect induces variation in spread patterns and increases the overall rate of spread.

By Jonathan A. Walter...

Shape analysis in a metacommunity context

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9 June 2017
The sigmodontine rodent genus Eligmodontia includes highly specialized desert-dwellers in the Southern Cone of South America. Species of gerbil mice have inflated auditory bullae, and are also capable of bipedal jumping and elevated urine concentration. Photo by...

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