Tag: Networks

#StoryBehindThePaper, Guest post

Connections Matter: How Patterns of Habitat Connectivity Affect Population Dynamics

This blog post is provided by Paulina A. Arancibia and Peter J. Morin and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the paper “Network topology and patch connectivity affect dynamics in experimental and model metapopulations”, which was recently published in the Journal of Animal Ecology. Global change has increased the rate at which habitats are fragmented, increasing the creation of spatially discontinuous populations linked by migration (metapopulations). The … Continue reading Connections Matter: How Patterns of Habitat Connectivity Affect Population Dynamics

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Guest post

Disease Ecology: The Lion’s Share

For the 2017 Elton Prize, the Editors selected one winning paper and two highly-commended papers. Last month we featured a blog post about prize winner Natalie Clay, and now we are proud to feature a post by highly-commended author Nick Fountain-Jones. Nick is a postdoc with the Department of Veterinary Population Medicine at the University of Minnesota. Read on to hear the #StoryBehindThePaper Understanding disease transmission … Continue reading Disease Ecology: The Lion’s Share

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