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- Title
AEDT: A new concept for ecological dynamics in the ever-changing world.
- Authors
Chesson, Peter
- Abstract
The important concept of equilibrium has always been controversial in ecology, but a new, more general concept, an asymptotic environmentally determined trajectory (AEDT), overcomes many concerns with equilibrium by realistically incorporating long-term climate change while retaining much of the predictive power of a stable equilibrium. A population or ecological community is predicted to approach its AEDT, which is a function of time reflecting environmental history and biology. The AEDT invokes familiar questions and predictions but in a more realistic context in which consideration of past environments and a future changing profoundly due to human influence becomes possible. Strong applications are also predicted in population genetics, evolution, earth sciences, and economics.
- Subjects
ECOLOGY; CLIMATE change; ENVIRONMENTAL history; POPULATION genetics; EVOLUTIONARY theories; EARTH sciences; ECONOMICS
- Publication
PLoS Biology, 2017, Vol 15, Issue 5, p1
- ISSN
1544-9173
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1371/journal.pbio.2002634