تقرير
New forms of structure in ecosystems revealed with the Kuramoto model
العنوان: | New forms of structure in ecosystems revealed with the Kuramoto model |
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المؤلفون: | Vandermeer, John, Hajian-Forooshani, Zachary, Medina, Nicholas, Perfecto, Ivette |
سنة النشر: | 2020 |
المجموعة: | Nonlinear Sciences Quantitative Biology |
مصطلحات موضوعية: | Quantitative Biology - Populations and Evolution, Nonlinear Sciences - Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems |
الوصف: | Ecological systems, as is often noted, are complex. Equally notable is the generalization that complex systems tend to be oscillatory, whether Huygens simple patterns of pendulum entrainment or the twisted chaotic orbits of Lorenz convection rolls. The analytics of oscillators may thus provide insight into the structure of ecological systems. One of the most popular analytical tools for such study is the Kuramoto model of coupled oscillators. Using a well-studied system of pests and their enemies in an agroecosystem, we apply this model as a stylized vision of the dynamics of that real system, to ask whether its actual natural history is reflected in the dynamics of the qualitatively instantiated Kuramoto model. Emerging from the model is a series of synchrony groups generally corresponding to subnetworks of the natural system, with an overlying chimeric structure, depending on the strength of the inter-oscillator coupling. We conclude that the Kuramoto model presents a novel window through which interesting questions about the structure of ecological systems may emerge. Comment: 18 pages, 5 figures |
نوع الوثيقة: | Working Paper |
الوصول الحر: | http://arxiv.org/abs/2006.16006Test |
رقم الانضمام: | edsarx.2006.16006 |
قاعدة البيانات: | arXiv |
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