Concepts

Individuals participate in seemingly altruistic behaviors because they have reciprocal relationships and take turns

The degree to which a watershed can rebound after perturbations to predicted increases in climate variability

Physical law relating absorbance to the molar absorption coefficient, path length, and concentration, used here to constrain functional group abundances

Theoretical lower bound on the variance of unbiased estimators, providing performance benchmark

A framework examining students' value of UREs as a predictor of their motivation to continue in research, incorporating individuals' expectations about success, perceptions of value and costs.

A theory based on the assumption that distribution of individuals is scale free, meaning geometric patterns are the same whether viewed through microscope or telescope

Theoretical model predicting conditions under which chromosomal inversions can spread due to linkage of locally adapted alleles

Model suggesting phages integrate into host genomes as prophages when microbial abundances and growth rates are high

A model based on the assumption that individuals within each species are randomly scattered over the plot or landscape

Theoretical framework describing continuous changes in stream characteristics from headwaters to mouth

A law relating to an animal's ability to differentiate among levels of stimuli, specifically about how animals detect and retrieve information, not how they choose to respond to perceived stimuli

The hypothesis that sexually selected traits are honest signals of individual quality because they impose a cost to the bearer

Evolved adaptations that reduce vulnerability to parasites through various mechanisms including resource specialization

Life-history strategy that reduces variance in fitness at the expense of lower mean fitness by producing multiple phenotypes

Activities of individuals or species that benefit from the rewards and services mutualisms exchange without offering any in return

Theoretical framework suggesting that upstream flight of stream insect adults is necessary to maintain larval populations in upstream reaches that might otherwise be depleted by downstream drift of la...

The ecological principle that removing individuals may not reduce population size if sampling removes individuals that would have died anyway

The capacity of a species to successfully compete for limiting resources, which can be altered by parasitic stress

The production and structure of animal signals may be condition dependent and may provide more than one type of information to receivers

When three variables are all related to one another, creating spurious climate-phenology relationships because both variables change across years

A set of organisms present across multiple sites that are not statistically associated with any specific location and represent shared metabolic potential

Theoretical framework examining trade-offs between advantages and disadvantages of group living

The hypothesis that reproductive costs accumulate over an individual's reproductive life span, with long-term costs occurring alongside or instead of short-term costs

Theory predicting that if reproduction leads to increased damage accumulation, fast reproducing individuals effectively bring forward their own death, with limited resources allocated among competing ...

Cognitive framework involving two distinct processes: intuitive insights followed by deliberate rational analysis

A phenomenon where paedomorphic salamanders are more successful at cannibalizing smaller larvae than metamorphs in ponds with high numbers of paedomorphs

Locations within landscapes that have disproportionate influence on ecosystem processes relative to their spatial extent

Theories that should be built on, as much as possible, on first principles, be quantitative, law-like postulates about processes underlying a given class of phenomena in the natural world with well-es...

The hypothesis that energy budgets rather than time budgets constrain marmot activity patterns

Concept that multiple different parameter combinations can produce equally acceptable model fits to observed data

Analysis of whether population equilibria are locally stable or unstable based on eigenvalues of the Jacobian matrix

The effect of genes beyond the boundaries of the individual organism, including effects on associated communities

The degree to which males can control access to females, influenced by factors such as female distribution in time and space

The need for females in gynodioecious species to compensate for their loss of male function through increased female fitness

The blending and intersection of multiple film genres within a single work, recognized as the norm rather than an exceptional feature of genre expression

Plants and herbivores become locally adapted to one another via a local evolutionary arms race

Sexual selection model where ornamental traits indicate genetic quality or parasite resistance

Communication signals that vary continuously rather than discretely to convey information about intensity or degree

Selection operating at the level of social groups rather than individuals

Fundamental differences between woody and herbaceous plants in resource acquisition and environmental adaptation