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SUBMITTER: Sullivan LL
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5441710 | biostudies-literature | 2017 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Sullivan Lauren L LL Li Bingtuan B Miller Tom E X TEX Neubert Michael G MG Shaw Allison K AK
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20170425 19
Density dependence plays an important role in population regulation and is known to generate temporal fluctuations in population density. However, the ways in which density dependence affects spatial population processes, such as species invasions, are less understood. Although classical ecological theory suggests that invasions should advance at a constant speed, empirical work is illuminating the highly variable nature of biological invasions, which often exhibit nonconstant spreading speeds, ...[more]