Complex interactions can create persistent fluctuations in high-diversity ecosystems.

When can ecological interactions drive an entire ecosystem into a persistent non-equilibrium state, where many species populations fluctuate without going to extinction? We show that high-diversity spatially heterogeneous systems can exhibit chaotic dynamics which persist for extremely long times. W...

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Main Authors: Felix Roy, Matthieu Barbier, Giulio Biroli, Guy Bunin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2020-05-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007827