Stability and Fluctuations in Complex Ecological Systems
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.
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@article{arxiv.2306.07447,
title = {Stability and Fluctuations in Complex Ecological Systems},
author = {Eric Forgoston and Sarah Day and Peter C. de Ruiter and Arjen Doelman and Nienke Hartemink and Alan Hastings and Lia Hemerik and Alexandru Hening and Josef Hofbauer and Sonia Kefi and David A. Kessler and Toni Klauschies and Christian Kuehn and Xiaoxiao Li and John C. Moore and Elly Morrien and Anje-Margriet Neutel and Jelena Pantel and Sebastian J. Schreiber and Leah B. Shaw and Nadav Shnerb and Eric Siero and Laura S. Storch and Michael A. S. Thorne and Ingrid van de Leemput and Ellen van Velzen and Els Weinans},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2306.07447},
year = {2023}
}
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22 pages