Pathogen-mediated natural and manipulated population collapse in an invasive social insect
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DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2114558119
Abstract: Significance Invasive social insects are among the most damaging of invasive organisms and have proved universally intractable to biological control. Despite this, populations of some invasive social insects collapse from unknown causes. We report long-term… read more here.
Keywords: collapse; collapse invasive; population collapse; insects ... See more keywords
Social copying drives a tipping point for nonlinear population collapse.
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DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2214055120
Abstract: Sudden changes in populations are ubiquitous in ecological systems, especially under perturbations. The agents of global change may increase the frequency and severity of anthropogenic perturbations, but complex populations' responses hamper our understanding of their… read more here.
Keywords: population; tipping point; social copying; population collapse ... See more keywords
Population collapse dynamics in Acropora downingi, an Arabian/Persian Gulf ecosystemâengineering coral, linked to rising temperature
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DOI: 10.1111/gcb.14114
Abstract: As in the tropical Atlantic, Acropora populations in the southern Persian/Arabian Gulf plummeted within two decades after having been ecosystem engineers on most wave-exposed reefs since the Pleistocene. Since 1996/1998 live coral cover in the… read more here.
Keywords: temperature; gulf; disturbance; population ... See more keywords