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Plants at risk from climate change
The popular garden flower Cyclamen grows natively in the Mediterranean. Climate change could make the region unsuitable for 18/21 species in 50 years time. Ant-dispersed Cyclamen can’t hope to mi…
Received 21 June 2007 09:07 UTC; Posted 21 June 2007
Posted to: Ecology, Plant Biology
Phyloclimatic Modelling: Phylogenies, Palaeo-climate and Environmental Preferences
A new technique is demonstrated for the interpretation of the role played by climate in plant diversity through the optimisation of climate variables on phylogenetic trees. This is achieved by calc…
Received 21 June 2007 07:25 UTC; Posted 21 June 2007
Posted to: Ecology, Plant Biology
Adaptive evolution and then what?
Traits determining ecological interactions and dynamics are generally subject to natural selection. That genetically based individual variation in ecological traits can influence population dynamic…
Received 16 June 2007 13:48 UTC; Posted 18 June 2007
Posted to: Ecology, Evolutionary Biology
Fluctuating population dynamics promotes the evolution of phenotypic plasticity
An increasing number of studies are showing evidence in support of sympatric speciation. One basic question remains, however. When a population has undergone a branching in its phenotype, is this d…
Received 16 June 2007 13:37 UTC; Posted 16 June 2007
Posted to: Ecology
Noise, cycles, and noisy cycles in finite populations
Periodic predator-prey dynamics in constant environments are usually taken as indicative of deterministic limit cycles. It is known, however, that demographic stochasticity in finite populations ca…
Received 13 June 2007 13:45 UTC; Posted 14 June 2007
Posted to: Ecology
Environmental modelling and Web 2.0 – using Connotea to share XML-represented information
Much academic information can be represented in a structured way and published on the web as XML documents. Such information can then be displayed in a wide variety of ways, using different XSLT …
Received 20 January 2007 14:42 UTC; Posted 20 January 2007
Posted to: Ecology, Bioinformatics, Earth & Environment
Declarative modelling in the ecological and environmental sciences
Most simulation models in ecological and environmental research are implemented as computer programs in a conventional programming language. This brief paper argues for a radically different appr…
Received 19 January 2007 23:15 UTC; Posted 20 January 2007
Posted to: Ecology, Earth & Environment
Comparative genomics and disorder prediction identify biologically relevant SH3 protein interactions
Protein interaction networks are an important part of the post-genomic effort to integrate a part-list view of the cell into system-level understanding. Using a set of 11 yeast genomes we show that…
Received 19 January 2007 11:36 UTC; Posted 19 January 2007
Posted to: Ecology, Bioinformatics, Evolutionary Biology
