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Understanding the complex interactions between the physical environment and biological dynamics is a fundamental goal in ecology (E. Odum 1971; Ricklefs 1979; McIntosh 1985). It has been proposed that the strength of coupling between a fluctuating environment and associated biota depends on the extent of overlap of the time scales of the biotic and abiotic components (Haury et al. 1978; Powell 1989; Steele 1989, 1991). Despite the recognition that the overlap in scale plays an important role in determining coupling, few studies have directly examined specific scale-dependent linkages between biotic and abiotic components.
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Monger, B.C., Fischer, J.M., Grantham, B.A., Medland, V., Cai, B., Higgins, K. (1997). Frequency Response of a Simple Food-Chain Model with Time-Delayed Recruitment: Implications for Abiotic-Biotic Coupling. In: Tuljapurkar, S., Caswell, H. (eds) Structured-Population Models in Marine, Terrestrial, and Freshwater Systems. Population and Community Biology Series, vol 18. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-5973-3_14
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