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Stability and Fluctuations in Complex Ecological Systems
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Forgoston, Eric; Day, Sarah; de Ruiter, Peter C.; Doelman, Arjen; Hartemink, Nienke; Hastings, Alan; Hemerik, Lia; Hening, Alexandru; Hofbauer, Josef; Kefi, Sonia; Kessler, David A.; Klauschies, Toni; Kuehn, Christian; Li, Xiaoxiao; Moore, John C.; Morrien, Elly; Neutel, Anje-Margriet; Pantel, Jelena; Schreiber, Sebastian J.; Shaw, Leah B.; Shnerb, Nadav; Siero, Eric; Storch, Laura S.; Thorne, Michael A. S.; van de Leemput, Ingrid; van Velzen, Ellen; Weinans, Els
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From 08-12 August, 2022, 32 individuals participated in a workshop, Stability and Fluctuations in Complex Ecological Systems, at the Lorentz Center, located in Leiden, The Netherlands. An interdisciplinary dialogue between ecologists, mathematicians, and physicists provided a foundation of important problems to consider over the next 5-10 years. This paper outlines eight areas including (1) improving our understanding of the effect of scale, both temporal and spatial, for both deterministic and stochastic problems; (2) clarifying the different terminologies and definitions used in different scientific fields; (3) developing a comprehensive set of data analysis techniques arising from different fields but which can be used together to improve our understanding of existing data sets; (4) having theoreticians/computational scientists collaborate closely with empirical ecologists to determine what new data should be collected; (5) improving our knowledge of how to protect and/or restore ecosystems; (6) incorporating socio-economic effects into models of ecosystems; (7) improving our understanding of the role of deterministic and stochastic fluctuations; (8) studying the current state of biodiversity at the functional level, taxa level and genome level.
Comment: 22 pages
Comment: 22 pages