Why does France not meet its pesticide reduction targets? Farmers' socio-economic trade-offs when adopting agro-ecological practices

Without Explicit Targets, Does France Meet Minimum Volume Thresholds for Hip and Knee Replacement and Bariatric Surgeries?

Life history trade-offs assemble ecological guilds.

Ecological theory predicts that competition for a limiting resource will lead to the exclusion of species unless the within-species effects outweigh the between-species effects. Understanding how multiple competitors might coexist on a single resource has focused on the prescriptive formalism of a necessary niche width and limiting similarity. Here, we show how continuously varying life histori...

Ecological and Socio-ecological Economic Models

Learning about social-ecological trade-offs

Trade-offs are manifestations of the complex dynamics in interdependent social-ecological systems. Addressing tradeoffs involves challenges of perception due to the dynamics of interdependence. We outline the challenges associated with addressing trade-offs and analyze knowledge coproduction as a practice that may contribute to tackling trade-offs in social-ecological systems. We discuss this t...

Detecting Ecological Trade-offs Using Selection Experiments

Theories of the evolution of niche breadth usually depend on the assumption that genotypes that are well adapted to exploit one habitat or resource are not well adapted to others. Such ‘‘trade-offs’’ are often apparent in interspecific comparisons, but have been harder to document at the within-population level. Selection experiments provide a promising means for detecting within-population tra...