Transients: the key to long-term ecological understanding?

By Alan Hastings. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2004

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Dynamic interactions of life and its landscape: feedbacks at the interface of geomorphology and ecology (2010, background): “The way forward is either to nest models requiring short timescales within longer-term surface process models, or alternatively, by examining separately the short-term transient dynamics of a system relative to the longer-term equilibrium dynamics (Hastings, 2004).”
The influence of paleoclimate on present-day patterns in biodiversity and ecosystems (2015, background): “If time lags are large relative to the frequency of changes in equilibrium states, disequilibrium dynamics are likely to be ubiquitous (Hastings 2004, Svenning & Sandel 2013).”
What can we learn from resource pulses? (2008, background): “…stable states (Scheffer 1990, Holmgren et al. 2001, Holmgren and Scheffer 2001, Scheffer et al. 2001, 2003, Scheffer and Carpenter 2003, Folke et al. 2004, Van Nes and Scheffer 2004, Schroder et al. 2005), or contribute to important nonequilibrium transient behaviors (Hastings 2001, 2004).”
Metapopulation consequences of site fidelity for colonially breeding mammals and birds (2005, background): “Transient dynamics are often as important for the management and conservation of a species as long-term dynamics (Hanski et al. 1996; Ovaskainen & Hanski 2002; Hastings 2004).”
Spatial variation in yield and quality in a small apple orchard (2010, background): “For example to what extent are fluctuations in yield due to external (exogenous) forces, such as weather and other environmental factors, or to internal (endogenous) forces, such as photosynthesis, internal carbon allocation and energy depletion due to flower and fruit production (Isagi et al. 1997;”
ASSEMBLY HISTORY INTERACTS WITH ECOSYSTEM SIZE TO INFLUENCE SPECIES DIVERSITY (2004, background): “This study, which lasted for about 50–100 generations, demonstrates that long-term studies are essential for understanding ecological processes (Hastings 2001, 2004), particularly community assembly (Grover and Lawton 1994, Samuels and Drake 1997, Warren et al. 2003).”
Mathematical models of infectious disease transmission (2008, background): “The interaction of seasonality, non-linear dynamics and stochasticity can lead to very complicated dynamics [70] [71] [72] , which can make the interpretation of infectious disease surveillance data a difficult task, with transient dynamics not necessarily reflecting underlying trends.”
Turning back from the brink: Detecting an impending regime shift in time to avert it (2009, background): “In transient settings, such as those that characterize our simulations and most real-world ecosystems (34, 45), long-term sustainable levels of human impact can easily be exceeded.”
Transient population dynamics:relations to life history and initial population state (2005, background): “Thus, the assumption of asymptotic population dynamics in the wild may be unwarranted in many cases (Hastings and Higgins, 1994; Fox and Gurevitch, 2000; Hastings, 2001, 2004).”
Models and indicators for assessing conservation and fisheries-related effects of marine protected areas (2008, neutral): “…similar in essence (i.e. mostly based on abundance indices), model-based and empirical indicators differ because they pertain to distinct spatial, temporal and ecological scales (see Hastings (2004) for a discussion on the disconnection between time scales in empirical and theoretical studies).”
Simulation modelling of ecological hierarchies in constructive dynamical systems (2007, background): “However, recent work has emphasized the importance of short-term, transient dynamics in ecological systems and models (Hastings, 2004), including transient chaos and saddle nodes.”
The Influence of Intraguild Predation on the Suppression of a Shared Prey Population: An Empirical Reassessment (2006, background): “The first is that there is a profound disconnect between the time frames of the empirical and the theoretical work: while the theory has been almost universally concerned with longterm equilibrium conditions, the empirical work has been almost entirely very shortterm (Venzon et al. 2001, Hastings 2”
Direct experimental evidence for alternative stable states: a review (2005, background): “To understand a recent, transient state, history and stochasticity has to be taken into account as is necessary for bistable systems (Drake et al. 1994, Hastings 2004), but their implications for the system are totally different.”