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Stability and Fluctuations in Complex Ecological Systems

  • E. Forgoston
  • , S. Day
  • , P.C. de Ruiter
  • , Arjen Doelman
  • , N.A. Hartemink
  • , A. Hastings
  • , L. Hemerik
  • , Alexandru Hening
  • , Josef Hofbauer
  • , Sonia Kéfi
  • , David A. Kessler
  • , Toni Klauschies
  • , Christian Kuehn
  • , Xiaoxiao Li
  • , John C. Moore
  • , Elly Morriën
  • , Anje-Margriet Neutel
  • , Jelena Pantel
  • , Sebastian J. Schreiber
  • , Leah B. Shaw
  • Nadav Shnerb, E.P.J.A. Siero, Laura S. Storch, Michael A.S. Thorne, I.A. van de Leemput, Ellen van Velzen, Els Weinans

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Abstract

From 08–12 August, 2022, 32 individuals participated in a workshop, Stability and Fluctuations in Complex Ecologica lSystems, at the Lorentz Center, located in Leiden, The Nether-lands. 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 socioeconomic 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.
Original languageEnglish
PublisherarXiv
Number of pages22
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 12 Jun 2023

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