Ecological model of extinctions

Physical Review E - Statistical Physics, Plasmas, Fluids, and Related Interdisciplinary Topics

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 785-788

  Abramson, Guillermo ^a  

^a ABDUS SALAM INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000372112     PISSN: 1063651X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.55.785     Document Type: Article

References (11)

1. P. Bak and K. Sneppen, Phys. Rev. Lett.71, 4083 (1993);
2. M. Paczuski, S. Maslov and P. Bak, Phys. Rev. E53, 414 (1996). Many extensions and modifications have been proposed to the original BS model;
3. see, for example, B.J. Roberts and M.E.J. Newman, J. Theor. Biol.180, 39 (1996).
4. S A. Kauffman and S. Johnsen, J. Theor. Biol.149, 467 (1991).
5. M.E.J. Newman, Los Alamos National Laboratory Report No. adap-org/9607002, 1996 (unpublished).
6. T B. Jongeling, J. Theor. Biol.178, 369 (1996).
7. J. Roughgarden, Theory of Population Genetics and Evolutionary Ecology, An Introduction (Macmillan Publishing Co., New York, 1979).
8. D M. Raup, Science231, 1528 (1986).
9. T S. Ray, Physica D75, 239 (1994). This is actually a brief account of Ray's previous work on ``artificial life.'' C. Adami, Phys. Lett. A203, 29 (1995).
10. J D. Murray, Mathematical Biology, 2nd ed. (Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1993).
11. To our knowledge, N. Vandewalle and M. Ausloos, Physica D90, 262 (1996) is the only model that incorporates speciation into a model like BS's.