Want to Survive into the Future? Try on the Meanwhile

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If the past informs the future, a tragic tomorrow can seem inevitable: famine, war, disease, and destruction threaten to unfold at the end of every path. Escaping the past has meant maintaining physical and economic growth, but this leads to another set of worries: Does all this expansion doom humans to the boom and bust fate that awaits all exponential creatures? It might. But what if an endless cycle between growth and death is just one of many possible evolutionary strategies? This is the story of the meanwhile creatures, exponential growers who thrive and persist long after growth is done.

Don’t forget to check out the full interview with Dr. Mark Nelson about the growth lessons learned living under glass for two years.

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Citations:
Ant Colony Development:

Tschinkel, W. R. (1988). Colony growth and the ontogeny of worker polymorphism in the fire ant, Solenopsis invicta. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 22(2), 103–115. doi:10.1007/bf00303545

Carrying Capacity, Issues with:

Dhondt, André. (1988). Carrying capacity: a confusing concept. Acta Oecologia. 9. 337-346.

Hildyard, N., Sexton S., Lohmann, L. ““Carrying Capacity”, “Overpopulation” and Environmental Degradation” The Corner House, UK. Website URL: http://www.thecornerhouse.org.uk/resource/%E2%80%9Ccarrying-capacity%E2%80%9D-%E2%80%9Coverpopulation%E2%80%9D-and-environmental-degradation (1993)

Seidl, I., & Tisdell, C. A. (1999). Carrying capacity reconsidered: from Malthus’ population theory to cultural carrying capacity. Ecological Economics, 31(3), 395–408. doi:10.1016/s0921-8009(99)00063-4

Overpopulation alarm:
William J. Ripple, Christopher Wolf, Thomas M. Newsome, Mauro Galetti, Mohammed Alamgir, Eileen Crist, Mahmoud I. Mahmoud, William F. Laurance, 15,364 scientist signatories from 184 countries, World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity: A Second Notice, BioScience, Volume 67, Issue 12, December 2017, Pages 1026–1028, https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/bix125

Stationary phase protein production:

Orit Gefen, Ofer Fridman, Irine Ronin, Nathalie Q. Balaban. Constant activity of stationary-phase bacteria. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Jan 2014, 111 (1) 556-561; DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1314114111

Bacteria behave differently in lab conditions than in nature:
Palková Z. Multicellular microorganisms: laboratory versus nature. EMBO Rep. 2004;5(5):470-476. doi:10.1038/sj.embor.7400145

Stationary phase dynamics in bacteria:

Juana María Navarro Llorens, Antonio Tormo, Esteban Martínez-García, Stationary phase in gram-negative bacteria, FEMS Microbiology Reviews, Volume 34, Issue 4, July 2010, Pages 476–495, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1574-6976.2010.00213.x

Finkel, S. E. (2006). Long-term survival during stationary phase: evolution and the GASP phenotype. Nature Reviews Microbiology, 4(2), 113–120.

Windfall Species:

Locusts
https://www.wired.com/story/the-terrifying-science-behind-the-locust-plagues-of-africa/
https://apnews.com/article/health-united-nations-ap-top-news-international-news-south-sudan-854648cd0a9f634ec0473f7442469295
http://www.fao.org/ag/locusts/en/info/info/faq/index.html

Van Huis, A., Cressman, K. and Magor, J.I. (2007), Preventing desert locust plagues: optimizing management interventions. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata, 122: 191-214. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1570-7458.2006.00517.x

Mice:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-01-24/mouse-plague-leaves-trail-of-damage-through-queensland-nsw/13069442

SINGLETON, G.R., BROWN, P.R., PECH, R.P., JACOB, J., MUTZE, G.J. and KREBS, C.J. (2005), One hundred years of eruptions of house mice in Australia – a natural biological curio. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 84: 617-627. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1095-8312.2005.00458.x

Reindeer:
Scheffer, V. (1951). The Rise and Fall of a Reindeer Herd. The Scientific Monthly, 73(6), 356-362. Retrieved May 24, 2021, from http://www.jstor.org/stable/20582

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