Temporal resolution of birth rate analysis in zooplankton and its implications for identifying strong interactions in ecology.

ABSTRACT: Expanding on Haeckel's classical definition, ecology can be defined as the study of strong and weak interactions between the organism and the environment, hence the need for identifying strong interactions as major drivers of population and community dynamics. The solution to this problem is facilitated by the fact that the frequency distribution of interaction strengths is highly skewed, resulting in few or, according to Liebig's law of the minimum, just one strong interaction. However, a single strong interaction often remains elusive. One of the reasons may be that, due to the ever-present dynamics of ecological systems, a single strong interaction is likely to exist only on relatively short time intervals, so methods with sufficient temporal resolution are required. In this paper, we s

SUBMITTER: Polishchuk LV 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10366112 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature