1. Stability and Fluctuations in Complex Ecological Systems
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Forgoston, Eric, Day, Sarah, de Ruiter, Peter C., Doelman, Arjen, Hartemink, Nienke, Hastings, Alan, Hemerik, Lia, Hening, Alexandru, Hofbauer, Josef, Kefi, Sonia, Kessler, David A., Klauschies, Toni, Kuehn, Christian, Li, Xiaoxiao, Moore, John C., Morrien, Elly, Neutel, Anje-Margriet, Pantel, Jelena, Schreiber, Sebastian J., Shaw, Leah B., Shnerb, Nadav, Siero, Eric, Storch, Laura S., Thorne, Michael A. S., van de Leemput, Ingrid, van Velzen, Ellen, and Weinans, Els
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Quantitative Biology - Populations and Evolution - Abstract
From 08-12 August, 2022, 32 individuals participated in a workshop, Stability and Fluctuations in Complex Ecological Systems, at the Lorentz Center, located in Leiden, The Netherlands. An interdisciplinary dialogue between ecologists, mathematicians, and physicists provided a foundation of important problems to consider over the next 5-10 years. This paper outlines eight areas including (1) improving our understanding of the effect of scale, both temporal and spatial, for both deterministic and stochastic problems; (2) clarifying the different terminologies and definitions used in different scientific fields; (3) developing a comprehensive set of data analysis techniques arising from different fields but which can be used together to improve our understanding of existing data sets; (4) having theoreticians/computational scientists collaborate closely with empirical ecologists to determine what new data should be collected; (5) improving our knowledge of how to protect and/or restore ecosystems; (6) incorporating socio-economic effects into models of ecosystems; (7) improving our understanding of the role of deterministic and stochastic fluctuations; (8) studying the current state of biodiversity at the functional level, taxa level and genome level., Comment: 22 pages
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- 2023