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View SchemaSpecies clustering in competitive Lotka-Volterra models
| Authors | Simone Pigolotti, Cristobal Lopez, Emilio Hernandez-Garcia |
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| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | q-bio/0702035 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/q-bio/0702035 |
| DOI | 10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.258101 |
| Journal | Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 258101 (2007) |
Abstract
We study the properties of Lotka-Volterra competitive models in which the intensity of the interaction among species depends on their position along an abstract niche space through a competition kernel. We show analytically and numerically that the properties of these models change dramatically when the Fourier transform of this kernel is not positive definite, due to a pattern forming instability. We estimate properties of the species distributions, such as the steady number of species and their spacings, for different types of kernels.
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