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2021-07-06
Jingjing Xu, Evelyn H. Merrill, Mark A. Lewis
Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is a fatal disease of cervid species that continues to spread across North America and now in Europe. It poses a threat to cervid populations and the local ecological and economic communities that depend on them. Although empirical studies have shown that host home...
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Spreading Speed, Traveling Waves, and Minimal Domain Size in Impulsive Reaction-di®usion Models
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How growth, mortality, and dispersal in a species affect the species' spread and persistence constitutes a central problem in spatial ecology. We propose impulsive reaction-diffusion equation models for species with distinct repro- ductive and dispersal stages. These models can describe a...
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2017-11-25
Juliana M. Berbert, Mark A. Lewis
Animal search patterns are governed by the various movement strategies undertaken when animals encounter stimuli. The stimuli caused by resource growth and depletion can modify search patterns due to the need to finding resources. In this paper, we investigate the influence of resource depletion...
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Supporting data - Territoriality and home-range dynamics in meerkats, Suricata suricatta: a mechanistic modelling approach
Supporting data - Territoriality and home-range dynamics in meerkats, Suricata suricatta: a mechanistic modelling approach
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Andrew W. Bateman, Mark A. Lewis, Gabriella Gall, Marta B. Manser, Tim H. Clutton-Brock
These were data used to fit home-range models for meerkat social groups. Data are provided as comma-separated variables, within directories in a zip file.
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Temperature- and Turbidity-Dependent Competitive Interactions Between Invasive Freshwater Mussels
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Qihua Huang, Hao Wang, Anthony Ricciardi, Mark A. Lewis
We develop a staged-structured population model that describes the competitive 7 dynamics of two functionally similar, congeneric invasive species: zebra mussels and quagga 8 mussels. The model assumes that the population survival rates are functions of temperature 9 and turbidity, and that the...
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2015-01-01
Jonathan R. Potts, Mark A. Lewis
Territoriality is a phenomenon exhibited throughout nature. On the individual level, it is the processes by which organisms exclude others of the same species from certain parts of space. On the population level, it is the segregation of space into separate areas, each used by subsections of the...
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Territoriality and home-range dynamics in meerkats, Suricata suricatta: a mechanistic modelling approach
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Andrew W. Bateman, Mark A. Lewis, Gabriella Gall, Marta B. Manser, Tim H. Clutton-Brock
Multiple approaches exist to model patterns of space use across species, among them resource selection analysis, statistical home-range modelling and mechanistic movement modelling. Mechanistic home-range models combine the benefits of these approaches, describing emergent territorial patterns...
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The “edge effect” phenomenon: deriving population abundance patterns from individual animal movement decisions
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Jonathan R. Potts, Thomas Hillen, Mark A. Lewis
Edge effects have been observed in a vast spectrum of animal populations. They occur where two conjoining habitats interact to create ecological phenomena that are not present in either habitat separately. On the individuallevel, an edge effect is a change in behavioral tendency on or near the...
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2016-01-01
Stephanie J. Peacock, Andrew W. Bateman, Martin Krkosek, Mark A. Lewis
The dynamics of coupled populations have mostly been studied in the context of metapopulation viability with application to, for example, species at risk. However, when considering pests and pathogens, eradication, not persistence, is often the end goal. Humans may intervene to control nuisance...
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2005-01-01
Frithjof Lutscher, Elizaveta Pachepsky, Mark A. Lewis
Individuals in streams are constantly subject to predominantly unidirectional flow. The question of how these populations can persist in upper stream reaches is known as the “drift paradox.” We employ a general mechanistic movement-model framework and derive dispersal kernels for this situation....