Modelling the spatial dynamics of parapoxvirus disease in red and grey squirrels: a possible cause of the decline in the red squirrel in the UK?

Management Virus-infection Britain Stochastic simulation-model Parasites Bovine tuberculosis Southwest england Meles-meles populations Sciurus-vulgaris Distemper

Mixed encounters, limited perception and optimal foraging

behavior selection ideal free distribution Choice Diet Predator-prey dynamics Constraints Partial preferences Profitability Maximization

Predicting extinction: Progress with an individual-based model of protozoan predators and prey

Dynamics Conservation ecology spatial processes Metapopulation structure Structured population-models Temporal variability Butterfly melitaea-cinxia Didinium-nasutum Systems-analysis

Is density-dependent growth in young-of-the-year fishes a question of critical weight?

Individual-based model Cod gadus-morhua Early-life stages Herring clupea-harengus Plaice pleuronectes-platessa Perch perca-flavescens Pollock theragra-chalcogramma Walleye stizostedion-vitreum Salmon oncorhynchus-keta Anchovy population-dynamics

Body size and shoaling in fish

Individual-based model Foraging behavior Poecilia-reticulata Schooling behavior Katsuwonus-pelamis 3-spined sticklebacks Predator hunting success Positioning behavior Fundulus-diaphanus Assessment time

Combining field experiments and individual-based modeling to identify the dynamically relevant organizational scale in a field system

Competition behavior Community ecology Predation risk Populations Grasshoppers Consequences Food-web Trophic exploitation

Ecological symmetry breaking can favour the evolution of altruism in an action-response game

Spatial patterns Model Kin selection Discrete Stable strategies Inclusive fitness Viscous populations Host-parasitoid system Hypercycles Relatedness

Predicting mortality in novel environments: tests and sensitivity of a behaviour-based model

interference Foraging behavior Mussels mytilus-edulis Deriving population parameters Energy-expenditure Oystercatchers haematopus-ostralegus Individual variations Winter habitat loss Migratory shorebird Exe estuary

The developmental emergence of coupled activity as cooperative aggregation in rat pups

Small-scale vegetation patterns in the parental environment influence the phase state of hatchlings of the desert locust

behavior Transition Schistocerca-gregaria Nymphs