Phase separation explains a new class of selforganized spatial patterns in ecological systems

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 29, 2013, Pages 11905-11910

  Liu, Quan Xing ^a,b   Doelman, Arjen ^c   Rottschafer, Vivi ^c   De Jager, Monique ^a   Herman, Peter M J ^a   Rietkerk, Max ^d   Van De Koppel, Johan ^a,e  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Animal aggregation; Mathematical model; Mussels; Spatial self organization

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAHN HILLIARD EQUATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; FIELD EXPERIMENT; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); MUSSEL; NONHUMAN; PHASE SEPARATION; PHYSICS; POPULATION DENSITY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF ACTUALIZATION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; VELOCITY;

ANIMAL AGGREGATION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MUSSELS; SPATIAL SELF-ORGANIZATION;

ANIMAL DISTRIBUTION; ANIMALS; BIVALVIA; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NETHERLANDS; POPULATION DENSITY;

EID: 84880345672     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1222339110     Document Type: Article

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