Population and community dynamics in complex environments

复杂环境中的人口和群落动态

• 批准号: RGPIN-2016-04795
• 负责人: Lutscher, Frithjof
• 金额: $ 3.21万
• 依托单位: University of Ottawa
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Discovery Grants Program - Individual
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2017-01-01 至 2018-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=631611
• 关键词: Population; community; dynamics; complex; environments

Ecological theory aims to explain observed spatio-temporal patterns of population extinction and persistence, spatial distribution, and community composition. An understanding of processes that generate these patterns is essential to predict the response of ecological communities to human activities such as development or harvesting, and to natural environmental variation. Ecologists use mathematical models to explore general theories for how processes on smaller scales interact to create patterns on larger scales.

生态学理论的目的是解释观察到的种群灭绝和持久性，空间分布和社区组成的时空模式。了解产生这些模式的过程对于预测生态群落对人类活动（如开发或收获）以及自然环境变化的反应至关重要。生态学家使用数学模型来探索小尺度上的过程如何相互作用以创造大尺度上的模式的一般理论。