ArticleJournal of the Royal Society, Interface2021
Effects of stochasticity on the length and behaviour of ecological transients.
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- Stochastic Forces in Microbial Community Assembly: Founding Community Size Governs Divergent Ecological Trajectories.Ecology letters · 2026Article
- Functional motifs in food webs and networks.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026Article
- Mechanisms causing the transition between spatial pattern long transients.Royal Society open science · 2025Article
- Increasing environmental fluctuations can dampen variability of endogenously cycling populations.Royal Society open science · 2024Article
- Structural stability of invasion graphs for Lotka-Volterra systems.Journal of mathematical biology · 2024Article
- Understanding change in benthic marine systems.Annals of botany · 2024Review
- Landscape quantifies the intermediate state and transition dynamics in ecological networks.PLoS computational biology · 2024Article
- Life-history speed, population disappearances and noise-induced ratchet effects.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2023Article
- Transients in ecology: stochasticity, management, and understanding.Theoretical ecology · 2021Article
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Abstract
There is a growing recognition that ecological systems can spend extended periods of time far away from an asymptotic state, and that ecological understanding will therefore require a deeper appreciation for how long ecological transients arise. Recent work has defined classes of deterministic mechanisms that can lead to long transients. Given the ubiquity of stochasticity in ecological systems, a similar systematic treatment of transients that includes the influence of stochasticity is important. Stochasticity can of course promote the appearance of transient dynamics by preventing systems from settling permanently near their asymptotic state, but stochasticity also interacts with deterministic features to create qualitatively new dynamics. As such, stochasticity may shorten, extend or fundamentally change a system's transient dynamics. Here, we describe a general framework that is developing for understanding the range of possible outcomes when random processes impact the dynamics of ecological systems over realistic time scales. We emphasize that we can understand the ways in which stochasticity can either extend or reduce the lifetime of transients by studying the interactions between the stochastic and deterministic processes present, and we summarize both the current state of knowledge and avenues for future advances.
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