Self-organized instability in complex ecosystems

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 357, Issue 1421, 2002, Pages 667-681

  Solé, Ricard V ^a   Alonso, David ^a   McKane, Alan ^a  

^a SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Rarity; Scaling; Spatial dynamics; Species abundance distributions; Species area relations

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; INSTABILITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RARITY; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SPECIES-AREA RELATIONSHIP;

ANIMAL; ECOSYSTEM; FOOD CHAIN; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, NON-P.H.S.; ANIMALS;

ANTHOZOA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECOSYSTEM; FOOD CHAIN; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; STATISTICS;

EID: 0037193645     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2001.0992     Document Type: Article

References (80)

1. The DivGame simulator: A stochastic cellular automata model of rain-forest dynamics
2. Power law scaling for a system of interacting units with complex internal structure
3. On the nature of population extremes
4. Self-organized criticality: An explanation for 1/f noise
5. The forest fire model and some thoughts on turbulence
6. Rethinking complexity - Modelling spatiotemporal dynamics in ecology
7. Plant species diversity in oldfield successional ecosystems in southern Illinois
8. The distribution of abundance in neutral communities
9. Neutral macroecology
10. Species-area and species-individual relationships for tropical trees: A comparison of three 50-ha plots
11. The mechanics of community assembly and succession
12. Communities as assembled structures: Do rules govern pattern?
13. Self-organized critical forest fire model
14. Stochastic spatial models
15. Stochastic spatial models: A user's guide to ecological applications
16. Spatial models for species-area curves
17. Estimating attractor dimensions from a limited data: A new method with error estimates
18. Chaos in a noisy world - New methods and evidence from time series analysis
19. Bifurcations and chaos in ecology: Lynx returns revisited
20. Chaos in ecology: Is mother nature a strange attractor?
21. The stability of ecosystems
22. Tree dispersal, abundance and diversity in a tropical dry forest
23. The introduced Hawaiian avifauna reconsidered: Evidence for self-organized criticality?
24. Dynamics of North American breeding bird populations
25. Ecosystems and the biosphere as complex adaptive systems
26. Weak trophic interactions and the balance of nature
27. The diversity-stability debate
28. A mean field stochastic theory for species-rich assembled communities
29. Forest fires: An example of self-organized critical behavior
30. Through the looking glass: How the marine phytoplankton appears through the microscope when graded by size and taxonomically sorted
31. Constant connectance in community food webs
32. Scale-dependent constraints in food web structure
33. Will a complex system be stable?
34. Patterns of species abundance and diversity
35. Small world patterns in food webs
36. Topological properties of food webs: From real data to ecological assembly models
37. Towards a general theory of biodiversity
38. Food web complexity and species diversity
39. Complex trophic interactions in deserts: An empirical critique of food-web theory
40. Predicting species diversity in tropical forests
41. A theory of ecological diversity
42. Power laws governing epidemics in isolated populations
43. Stretching and folding in lynx fur returns: Evidence for a strange attractor in nature?
44. Order and chaos in ecological systems
45. Coherent noise scale invariance and intermittency in large systems
46. Phase transitions and complex systems
47. Criticality and scaling in evolutionary ecology
48. Scaling in a network model of a multispecies ecosystem
49. Scaling and universality in animate and inanimate systems
50. Competition and biodiversity in spatially structural habitats
51. Habitat destruction and the extinction debt
52. Time-series modeling of population fluctuations
53. Simple rules yield complex food webs
54. Spatial and temporal variation in tropical fish trophic networks
55. Evolution in Mendelian populations