Identifying consumer–resource population dynamics using paleoecological data

• Published in: Ecology
• Main Authors: Einarsson, Árni, Hauptfleisch, Ulf, Leavitt, Peter R., Ives, Anthony R.
• Other Authors: Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2016
• Subjects: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics; Mývatn; Iceland
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1890/15-0596.1; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1890%2F15-0596.1; https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1890/15-0596.1

Abstract Ecologists have long been fascinated by cyclic population fluctuations, because they suggest strong interactions between exploiter and victim species. Nonetheless, even for populations showing high‐amplitude fluctuations, it is often hard to identify which species are the key drivers of the...