ANNA GÅRDMARK,* NICLAS JONZÉN*† and MARC MANGEL‡ * Department of Theoretical Ecology, Ecology Building, Lund University, SE-223 62 Lund, Sweden; † Department of Biology and Environmental Sciences, University of Jyväskylä, PO Box 35, FIN-40351, Jyväskylä, Finland; and ‡ Center for Stock Assessment Research and Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Jack Baskin School of Engineering, U...

Few terms in wildlife ecology and conservation biology enjoy jargon status more than the word " habitat. " The ubiquity of the word in popular, scientific, and administrative literature suggests a universal definition, yet the diversity of contexts in which it is used clearly indicates little consensus. This conceptual imprecision has strong, but generally unacknowledged, implications for under...

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Human cultural traits-behaviors, ideas, and technologies that can be learned from other individuals-can exhibit complex patterns of transmission and evolution, and researchers have developed theoretical models, both verbal and mathematical, to facilitate our understanding of these patterns. Many of the first quantitative models of cultural evolution were modified from existing concepts in theor...

To combat the increasing significance of deployment and configuration costs, the concept of a self-deploying, self-configuring radio access network is discussed. It is proposed that the basic sciences of complex systems (cellular automata, game theory, ecology modeling) can be exploited to design algorithms for such a system. An example, taken from the field of cellular automata, is presented f...

EDITORIAL article Front. Ecol. Evol., 13 October 2022Sec. Urban Ecology Volume 10 - 2022 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2022.1032022