Rolf A. Ims

TL;DR: These rapid changes in terrestrial, freshwater, and marine systems, presage changes at lower latitudes that will affect natural resources, food production, and future climate buffering, and highlight areas of ecological research that deserve priority as the Arctic continues to warm.

TL;DR: This work presents an approach to research that focuses on how individual-level mechanisms operating in a heterogeneous mosaic produce ecological patterns that are spatially dependent.

TL;DR: The search for mechanisms behind spatial population synchrony is a major issue in population ecology and the recent achievements illustrate the power of combining theory, observation, experimentation and statistical modeling in the ecological research protocol.

TL;DR: It is shown how functional responses in habitat use (i.e., change in preference with availability of one of two main habitat types) may be tested and how binomial logit models can be used to regress proportionate use of a habitat type against the proportion of that habitat available.

TL;DR: New theoretical and empirical analyses have shown that the predicted advantage of reproductive synchrony depends on the ecological setting in which populations reproduce, and processes earlier thought to be responsible only for synchrony may under some ecological conditions lead to asynchronous reproduction being the best strategy.