Resource limitation is a terribly important idea in ecology. It underlies density dependence, and is therefore a key concept in population dynamics. Without it, it is also difficult to understand how population fitness behaves during evolution. But it has also a lot of consequences for understanding the evolution of traits, when organisms try to gather and defend resources. For example, territoriality can have impacts on the evolution of ageing itself!
| de Vries, C., Galipaud, M. & Kokko, H. 2023. Extrinsic mortality and senescence: a guide for the perplexed. Peer Community Journal 3: e29. | |
| Kokko, H. 2021. The stagnation paradox: the ever-improving but (more or less) stationary population fitness. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 288: 20212145 | |
| Li, X.-Y. & Kokko, H. 2021. Sexual dimorphism driven by intersexual resource competition: why is it rare, and where to look for it? Journal of Animal Ecology 90: 1831-1843. | |
| Kokko, H., Chaturvedi, A., Croll, D., Fischer, M.C., Guillaume, F., Karrenberg, S., Kerr, B., Rolshausen, G. & Stapley, J. 2017. Can evolution supply what ecology demands? Trends in Ecology & Evolution 32: 187-197. | |
| Harts, A., Jaatinen, K. & Kokko, H. 2016. Evolution of natal and breeding dispersal: when is a territory an asset worth protecting? Behavioral Ecology 27: 287-294. | |
| haiku pdf | Day, E. & Kokko, H. 2015. Relaxed selection when you least expect it: why declining bird populations might fail to respond to phenological mismatches. Oikos 124: 62–68. |
| Kokko, H., Griffith, S.C. & Pryke, S.R. 2014. The hawk-dove game in a sexually reproducing species explains a colourful polymorphism in an endangered bird. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 281: 20141794. | |
| Kokko, H. 2013. Conflict and Restraint in Animal Species: Implications for War and Peace. Pages 38-53 in: War, Peace, and Human Nature (D. Fry, ed.) Oxford University Press. | |
| Kokko, H. 2013. Dyadic contests: modelling fights between two individuals. Pages 5-32 in: Animal Contests (I.C.W. Hardy & M. Briffa, eds.) Cambridge University Press. | |
| haiku pdf | Kokko, H. 2011. Directions in modelling partial migration: how adaptation can cause a population decline and why the rules of territory acquisition matter. Oikos 120: 1826–1837. |
| Kokko, H. 2011. Directions in modelling partial migration: how adaptation can cause a population decline and why the rules of territory acquisition matter. Oikos 120: 1826–1837. | |
| Ratikainen, I.I., Gill, J.A., Gunnarsson, T.G., Sutherland, W.J. & Kokko, H. 2008. When density-dependence is not instantaneous: theoretical developments and management implications. Ecology Letters 11: 184-198. | |
| Kokko, H. 2008. Animal Behavioral Studies, Non-primates. In: Encyclopedia of Violence, Peace and Conflict (Kurtz, L. ed.) Elsevier. | |
| Kokko, H. & López-Sepulcre, A. 2007. The ecogenetic link between demography and evolution: can we bridge the gap between theory and data? Ecology Letters 10: 773-782. | |
| Rankin, D.J. & Kokko, H. 2007. Do males matter? The role of males in population dynamics. Oikos 116: 335-348. | |
| Kokko, H., Gunnarsson, T.G., Morrell, L.J. & Gill, J.A. 2006. Why do female migratory birds arrive later than males? Journal of Animal Ecology 75: 1293-1303. | |
| Kokko, H., López-Sepulcre, A. & Morrell, L.J. 2006. From hawks and doves to self-consistent games of territorial behavior. American Naturalist 167: 901-912. | |
| López-Sepulcre, A. & Kokko, H. 2005. Territorial defense, territory size and population regulation. American Naturalist 166: 317-329. | |
| Morrell, L.J. & Kokko, H. 2005. Bridging the gap between mechanistic and adaptive explanations of territoriality. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 57: 381-390. | |
| Kokko, H., Harris, M.P. & Wanless, S. 2004. Competition for breeding sites and site-dependent population regulation in a highly colonial seabird, the common guillemot Uria aalge. Journal of Animal Ecology 73: 367-376. | |
| Morrell, L.J. & Kokko, H. 2003. Adaptive strategies of territory formation. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 54: 385-395. | |
| Kokko, H. & Ekman, J. 2002. Delayed dispersal as a route to breeding: Territorial inheritance, ‘safe havens’ and ecological constraints. American Naturalist 160: 468-484. | |
| Kokko, H., Sutherland, W. J. & Johnstone, R. A. 2001. The logic of territory choice: implications for conservation and source-sink dynamics. American Naturalist 157: 459-463. | |
| Kokko, H. 1999. Competition for early arrival in migratory birds. Journal of Animal Ecology 68: 940-950. | |
| Lindström, J., Kokko, H., Ranta, E. & Lindén, H. 1999. Density dependence and the response surface methodology. Oikos 85: 40-52. | |
| Kokko, H. & Sutherland, W. J. 1998. Optimal floating and queuing strategies: consequences for density dependence and habitat loss. American Naturalist 152: 354-366. |