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2009-01-01
Bampfylde, Caroline J., Jerde, Christopher L., Lewis, Mark A.
We formalize the establishment process for a sexual, semelparous organism through the use of hierarchical probability modeling from parameters of survival, probability of being female, probability of being fertilized, and expected fecundity.We show how to calculate the expected per capita growth...
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1996-01-01
Mark Kot, Mark A. Lewis, P. van den Driessch
Models that describe the spread of invading organisms often assume that the dispersal distances of propagules are normally distributed. In contrast, measured dispersal curves are typically leptokurtic, not normal. In this paper, we consider a class of models, integrodifference equations, that...
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2007
Chang, S. X., Bhatti, J., Choi, W. J.
Abstract: The lowering of the water table resulting from peatland drainage may dramatically alter C and N cycling in peatland ecosystems, which contain one-third of the total terrestrial C. In this study, tree annual ring width and C (delta C-13) and N (delta N-15) isotope ratios in soil and...
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Effect of fluctuating temperature and propagule flow on invasibility of global marine habitats and species distribution
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Invasive colonizers propagated through human-mediated vectors are bio-homogenizing the world’s oceans and impacting the ecological structures and functions. Where do they come from, and where do they go? What bio-physical mechanisms drive them to do what they do? Can we control the human-mediated...
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2014
Lewis, M.A., Derocher, A.E., Molnár, P.K.
Allee effects are an important component in the population dynamics of numerous species. Accounting for these Allee effects in population viability analyses generally requires estimates of low-density population growth rates, but such data are unavailable for most species and particularly...
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Fall 2009
Kura clover (Trifolium ambiguum) is a perennial legume species that has been found to have exceptional persistence in the United States, Australia and New Zealand. There are two challenges that impede the incorporation of Kura clover into pasture mixtures in Alberta. The first is the lack of...
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Resiliency of boreal forest tree species on a reclaimed oil sands mine and natural forest stands in northeastern Alberta
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Disturbances in the boreal forest are common, so the species that comprise these forests must be resilient to them. This research examines the resiliency, here defined as the regeneration of boreal tree species following disturbance on both reclaimed and natural sites. The suckering response of...
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Temperature-dependent Allee effects in a stage-structured model for Bythotrephes establishment
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Young, J. D., Yan, N. D., Lewis, Mark A., Wittmann, M. J.
Whether the invasive freshwater cladoceran Bythotrephes longimanus can establish after introduction into a water body depends on several biotic and abiotic factors. Among these, water temperature is important because both development rates and mode of reproduction (parthenogenetic or sexual) in...