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Mercedes Pascual
Researcher at University of Chicago
Publications - 191
Citations - 17436
Mercedes Pascual is an academic researcher from University of Chicago. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Malaria. The author has an hindex of 60, co-authored 178 publications receiving 15519 citations. Previous affiliations of Mercedes Pascual include Howard Hughes Medical Institute & Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
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Anticipating Critical Transitions
Marten Scheffer,Marten Scheffer,Stephen R. Carpenter,Timothy M. Lenton,Jordi Bascompte,William A. Brock,Vasilis Dakos,Vasilis Dakos,Johan van de Koppel,Ingrid A. van de Leemput,Simon A. Levin,Egbert H. van Nes,Mercedes Pascual,Mercedes Pascual,John Vandermeer +14 more
TL;DR: How previously isolated lines of work can be connected are reviewed, it is concluded that many critical transitions (such as escape from the poverty trap) can have positive outcomes, and how the new approaches to sensing fragility can help to detect both risks and opportunities for desired change.
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Seasonality and the dynamics of infectious diseases.
Sonia Altizer,Andrew P. Dobson,Parviez R. Hosseini,Peter J. Hudson,Mercedes Pascual,Pejman Rohani +5 more
TL;DR: Examples from human and wildlife disease systems are reviewed to illustrate the challenges inherent in understanding the mechanisms and impacts of seasonal environmental drivers, and to highlight general insights that are relevant to other ecological interactions.
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Ecological forecasts: an emerging imperative.
James S. Clark,Steven R. Carpenter,Mary Barber,Scott L. Collins,Andrew P. Dobson,Jonathan A. Foley,David M. Lodge,Mercedes Pascual,Roger A. Pielke,William A. Pizer,Catherine M. Pringle,W. V. Reid,Kenneth A. Rose,Osvaldo E. Sala,William H. Schlesinger,Diana H. Wall,David N. Wear +16 more
TL;DR: Access to reliable forecasts of ecosystem state, ecosystem services, and natural capital will increase the ability to forecast ecosystem change and create a capacity to produce, evaluate, and communicate forecasts of critical ecosystem services.
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Parasites in food webs: the ultimate missing links
Kevin D. Lafferty,Stefano Allesina,Matías Arim,Cherie J. Briggs,Giulio A. De Leo,Andrew P. Dobson,Jennifer A. Dunne,Pieter T. J. Johnson,Armand M. Kuris,David J. Marcogliese,Neo D. Martinez,Jane Memmott,Pablo A. Marquet,Pablo A. Marquet,John P. McLaughlin,Eerin A. Mordecai,Mercedes Pascual,Robert Poulin,David W. Thieltges +18 more
TL;DR: Parasitism is the most common consumer strategy among organisms, yet only recently has there been a call for the inclusion of infectious disease agents in food webs, and the value of this effort hinges on whether parasites affect food-web properties.
Book
Ecological networks : Linking structure to dynamics in food webs
TL;DR: Dunne et al. as discussed by the authors introduced the concept of food web as a model for the evolution of ecosystems, and proposed a model of food-web evolution in the context of ecology.