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Nelson G. Hairston
Researcher at Cornell University
Publications - 180
Citations - 18729
Nelson G. Hairston is an academic researcher from Cornell University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Diaptomus. The author has an hindex of 63, co-authored 177 publications receiving 17628 citations. Previous affiliations of Nelson G. Hairston include Max Planck Society & Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology.
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Community Structure, Population Control, and Competition
TL;DR: Populations of producers, carnivores, and decomposers are limited by their respective resources in the classical density-dependent fashion and interspecific competition must necessarily exist among the members of each of these three trophic levels.
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Rapid evolution drives ecological dynamics in a predator–prey system
Takehito Yoshida,Laura E. Jones,Stephen P. Ellner,Gregor F. Fussmann,Gregor F. Fussmann,Nelson G. Hairston +5 more
TL;DR: It is reported that rapid prey evolution in response to oscillating predator density affects predator–prey (rotifer–algal) cycles in laboratory microcosms, and that attempts to understand population oscillations in nature cannot neglect potential effects from ongoing rapid evolution.
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Rapid evolution and the convergence of ecological and evolutionary time
TL;DR: This work proposes that rapid evolution be defined as a genetic change occurring rapidly enough to have a measurable impact on simultaneous ecological change, and proposes a framework for decomposing rates of ecological change into components driven by simultaneous evolutionary change and by change in a non-evolutionary factor.
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Ecosystem size determines food-chain length in lakes
TL;DR: It is found that food-chain length increases with ecosystem size, but that the length of the food chain is not related to productivity, which supports the hypothesis thatcosystem size, and not resource availability, determines food- chain length in natural ecosystems.
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Meeting ecological and societal needs for freshwater
Jill S. Baron,N. LeRoy Poff,Paul L. Angermeier,Clifford N. Dahm,Peter H. Gleick,Nelson G. Hairston,Robert B. Jackson,Carol A. Johnston,Brian Richter,Alan D. Steinman +9 more
TL;DR: In this article, the integrity of freshwater ecosystems depends upon adequate quantity, quality, timing, and temporal variability of water flow, and these attributes impart relatively unique characteristics of productivity and biodiversity to each ecosystem.