ReviewEcology2022
The long and the short of it: Mechanisms of synchronous and compensatory dynamics across temporal scales.
Review in Ecology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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8 citing papers in PubMed, 48 citations in OpenAlex.
- Differential Responses of Flowering Functional Groups to Species Loss Altered Community Flowering-Date Synchrony and Reduced Temporal Stability in an Alpine Meadow.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Species Accumulation Stabilizes the Synchronous Responses to the Environment of Vertebrate Communities Worldwide.Ecology and evolution · 2026Article
- Community Synchrony in Aquatic Macroinvertebrates Is Unrelated to Environmental Variability but Differs Among Functional Feeding Groups.Ecology and evolution · 2026Article
- Short time series obscure compensatory dynamics in ecological communities.Nature ecology & evolution · 2025Article
- Widespread freshwater non-native fishes exhibit synchronized population dynamics with functionally similar natives.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Worldwide Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene population declines in extant megafauna are associated with Homo sapiens expansion rather than climate change.Nature communications · 2023Article
- Seasonality, density dependence, and spatial population synchrony.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022Article
- The long and the short of it: Mechanisms of synchronous and compensatory dynamics across temporal scales.Ecology · 2022Review
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18 authors at 16 institutions in 3 countries.
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Abstract
Synchronous dynamics (fluctuations that occur in unison) are universal phenomena with widespread implications for ecological stability. Synchronous dynamics can amplify the destabilizing effect of environmental variability on ecosystem functions such as productivity, whereas the inverse, compensatory dynamics, can stabilize function. Here we combine simulation and empirical analyses to elucidate mechanisms that underlie patterns of synchronous versus compensatory dynamics. In both simulated and empirical communities, we show that synchronous and compensatory dynamics are not mutually exclusive but instead can vary by timescale. Our simulations identify multiple mechanisms that can generate timescale-specific patterns, including different environmental drivers, diverse life histories, dispersal, and non-stationary dynamics. We find that traditional metrics for quantifying synchronous dynamics are often biased toward long-term drivers and may miss the importance of short-term drivers. Our findings indicate key mechanisms to consider when assessing synchronous versus compensatory dynamics and our approach provides a pathway for disentangling these dynamics in natural systems.
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