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Research interests
My primary research interests lie in the interdisciplinary study of ecology and evolution on the basis of the integration of physics, mathematics, biology and computer simulation. Nonlinear interactions, stochasticity, environmental forcing, and rapid evolution are all common features of the problems on which my research agenda is focused.
Nowadays, my research is driven by two general interests: the evaluation of risks of disease emergence and spread of diseases as a consequence of human-induced global environmental change and the study of the variety of mechanisms involved in the origins, maintenance and loss of species in ecological communities.
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Mentor
Annette Ostling
Select publications
David Alonso, Rampal S. Etienne and Alan J. McKane (2007) Response to
Benedetti-Cecchi: Neutrality and environmental fluctuations. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 22 (5)
D. Alonso, A. J. McKane and M. Pascual (2006). Stochastic amplification in epidemics. J. Roy. Soc. Interface. Accepted
D. Alonso and M. Pascual (2006). A keystone mutualism drives pattern in a power function. Technical Comment. Science, 313: 1739b
D. Alonso, R. S. Etienne and A. J. McKane (2006). The merits of neutral theory. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 21 (8): 351-356
J. Chave, D. Alonso and R. S. Etienne (2006). Comparing models of species abundance. Nature, 441: E1-E2
R. S. Etienne and D. Alonso (2006). Neutral community theory: how stochasticity and dispersal-limitation can explain species coexistence.
Journal of Statistical Physics. DOI: 10.1007/s10955-006-9163-2
R. S. Etienne and D. Alonso (2005). A dispersal-limited sampling theory for species and alleles. Ecology Letters, 8: 1147-1156
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