Kevin McCann joined the faculty at the University of Guelph in 2003 as a Canadian Research Chair in Biodiversity after starting his career at McGill University in 1999. McCann is a leading theoretical ecologist with an expertise in food webs. McCann combines theoretical ecology with experimental and empirical work across aquatic ecosystems (lakes, rivers and coastal marine ecosystems). His research seeks to examine the biological structure underlying diversity and the critical relationship between this structure, ecosystem function and stability. In 2013, McCann was elected lifetime fellow to the Ecological Society of America for research achievements.Gabriel Gellner is a researcher at the University of Guelph, having completed his PhD in 2014. Gellner is a theoretical ecologist with wide ranging interests in food webs, mathematical and computational methods, and disease ecology. Gellner has worked with leading scientists in North America (University of Guelph, UC Davis, Colorado State, USDA) and internationally (Japan, Brazil, UK). His work looks at how complex networks can be decomposed into fundamental dynamic subsystems from a conceptual and methodological perspective.

A great and condensed overview of the state of the art including currently unresolved questions and challenges. Accordingly, the book will be extremely useful for scientists who are ready to establish their own research agenda in mathematically-oriented theoretical ecology.

• 1: Introduction Gabriel Gellner, Kevin S. McCann & Emily J. Champagne 2: Species coexistence Peter Chesson 3: The synergistic effects of interaction strength and lags on ecological stability Gabriel Gellner, Kevin S. McCann & Christopher Greyson-Gaito 4: Non-equilibrium dynamics and stochastic processes Karen C. Abbott 5: The impact of population structure on population and community dynamics André M. de Roos 6: Models for large ecological communities - a random matrix approach Stefano Allesina & Jacopo Grilli 7: A structural theory of mutualistic networks Jordi Bascompte & Antonio Ferrera 8: A data driven approach to complex ecological systems Michio Kondoh, Kazutaka Kawatsu, Yutaka Osada & Masayuki Ushio 9: Trait-based models of complex ecological network Ulrich Brose 10: Ecological networks: from structure to dynamics Sonia Kéfi 11: Trait-based ecological and eco-evolutionary theory Christopher A. Klausmeier, Colin T. Kremer & Thomas Koffel 12: Toward a general theory of metacommunity ecology Dominique Gravel & François Massol 13: Theories of diversity in disease ecology T. Alex Perkins & Jason R. Rohr 14: Climate change: Studying the effects of temperature on population and community dynamics David A. Vasseur 15: Alternative stable states, tipping points, and early warning signals of ecological transitions John M. Drake, Suzanne M. O'Regan, Vasilis Dakos, Sonia Kéfi & Pejman Rohani 16: Areas of current and future growth Kevin S. McCann & Gabriel Gellner

Kevin McCann joined the faculty at the University of Guelph in 2003 as a Canadian Research Chair in Biodiversity after starting his career at McGill University in 1999. McCann is a leading theoretical ecologist with an expertise in food webs. McCann combines theoretical ecology with experimental and empirical work across aquatic ecosystems (lakes, rivers and coastal marine ecosystems). His research seeks to examine the biological structure underlying diversity and the critical relationship between this structure, ecosystem function and stability. In 2013, McCann was elected lifetime fellow to the Ecological Society of America for research achievements.Gabriel Gellner is a researcher at the University of Guelph, having completed his PhD in 2014. Gellner is a theoretical ecologist with wide ranging interests in food webs, mathematical and computational methods, and disease ecology. Gellner has worked with leading scientists in North America (University of Guelph, UC Davis, Colorado State, USDA) and internationally (Japan, Brazil, UK). His work looks at how complex networks can be decomposed into fundamental dynamic subsystems from a conceptual and methodological perspective.

A great and condensed overview of the state of the art including currently unresolved questions and challenges. Accordingly, the book will be extremely useful for scientists who are ready to establish their own research agenda in mathematically-oriented theoretical ecology.

• 1: Introduction Gabriel Gellner, Kevin S. McCann & Emily J. Champagne 2: Species coexistence Peter Chesson 3: The synergistic effects of interaction strength and lags on ecological stability Gabriel Gellner, Kevin S. McCann & Christopher Greyson-Gaito 4: Non-equilibrium dynamics and stochastic processes Karen C. Abbott 5: The impact of population structure on population and community dynamics André M. de Roos 6: Models for large ecological communities - a random matrix approach Stefano Allesina & Jacopo Grilli 7: A structural theory of mutualistic networks Jordi Bascompte & Antonio Ferrera 8: A data driven approach to complex ecological systems Michio Kondoh, Kazutaka Kawatsu, Yutaka Osada & Masayuki Ushio 9: Trait-based models of complex ecological network Ulrich Brose 10: Ecological networks: from structure to dynamics Sonia Kéfi 11: Trait-based ecological and eco-evolutionary theory Christopher A. Klausmeier, Colin T. Kremer & Thomas Koffel 12: Toward a general theory of metacommunity ecology Dominique Gravel & François Massol 13: Theories of diversity in disease ecology T. Alex Perkins & Jason R. Rohr 14: Climate change: Studying the effects of temperature on population and community dynamics David A. Vasseur 15: Alternative stable states, tipping points, and early warning signals of ecological transitions John M. Drake, Suzanne M. O'Regan, Vasilis Dakos, Sonia Kéfi & Pejman Rohani 16: Areas of current and future growth Kevin S. McCann & Gabriel Gellner

Kevin McCann joined the faculty at the University of Guelph in 2003 as a Canadian Research Chair in Biodiversity after starting his career at McGill University in 1999. McCann is a leading theoretical ecologist with an expertise in food webs. McCann combines theoretical ecology with experimental and empirical work across aquatic ecosystems (lakes, rivers and coastal marine ecosystems). His research seeks to examine the biological structure underlying diversity and the critical relationship between this structure, ecosystem function and stability. In 2013, McCann was elected lifetime fellow to the Ecological Society of America for research achievements.Gabriel Gellner is a researcher at the University of Guelph, having completed his PhD in 2014. Gellner is a theoretical ecologist with wide ranging interests in food webs, mathematical and computational methods, and disease ecology. Gellner has worked with leading scientists in North America (University of Guelph, UC Davis, Colorado State, USDA) and internationally (Japan, Brazil, UK). His work looks at how complex networks can be decomposed into fundamental dynamic subsystems from a conceptual and methodological perspective.

A great and condensed overview of the state of the art including currently unresolved questions and challenges. Accordingly, the book will be extremely useful for scientists who are ready to establish their own research agenda in mathematically-oriented theoretical ecology.

• 1: Introduction Gabriel Gellner, Kevin S. McCann & Emily J. Champagne 2: Species coexistence Peter Chesson 3: The synergistic effects of interaction strength and lags on ecological stability Gabriel Gellner, Kevin S. McCann & Christopher Greyson-Gaito 4: Non-equilibrium dynamics and stochastic processes Karen C. Abbott 5: The impact of population structure on population and community dynamics André M. de Roos 6: Models for large ecological communities - a random matrix approach Stefano Allesina & Jacopo Grilli 7: A structural theory of mutualistic networks Jordi Bascompte & Antonio Ferrera 8: A data driven approach to complex ecological systems Michio Kondoh, Kazutaka Kawatsu, Yutaka Osada & Masayuki Ushio 9: Trait-based models of complex ecological network Ulrich Brose 10: Ecological networks: from structure to dynamics Sonia Kéfi 11: Trait-based ecological and eco-evolutionary theory Christopher A. Klausmeier, Colin T. Kremer & Thomas Koffel 12: Toward a general theory of metacommunity ecology Dominique Gravel & François Massol 13: Theories of diversity in disease ecology T. Alex Perkins & Jason R. Rohr 14: Climate change: Studying the effects of temperature on population and community dynamics David A. Vasseur 15: Alternative stable states, tipping points, and early warning signals of ecological transitions John M. Drake, Suzanne M. O'Regan, Vasilis Dakos, Sonia Kéfi & Pejman Rohani 16: Areas of current and future growth Kevin S. McCann & Gabriel Gellner