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ArticleScientific reports2015

Species survival emerge from rare events of individual migration.

Yuval R Zelnik, Sorin Solomon, Gur Yaari

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Article in Scientific reports, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Yuval R ZelnikDepartment of Solar Energy and Environmental Physics, Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Sede Boqer Campus 84990, Israel.
Sorin SolomonDepartment of Physics, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 84105, Israel.
Gur YaariBioengineering Program, Faculty of Engineering, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, 5290002, Israel.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Ecosystems greatly vary in their species composition and interactions, yet they all show remarkable resilience to external influences. Recent experiments have highlighted the significant effects of spatial structure and connectivity on the extinction and survival of species. It has also been emphasized lately that in order to study extinction dynamics reliably, it is essential to incorporate stochasticity, and in particular the discrete nature of populations, into the model. Accordingly, we applied a bottom-up modeling approach that includes both spatial features and stochastic interactions to study survival mechanisms of species. Using the simplest spatial extension of the Lotka-Volterra predator-prey model with competition, subject to demographic and environmental noise, we were able to systematically study emergent properties of this rich system. By scanning the relevant parameter space, we show that both survival and extinction processes often result from a combination of habitat fragmentation and individual rare events of recolonization.

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EcosystemModels, BiologicalPopulation DynamicsAnimalsComputer SimulationStochastic Processes

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PMID25597477
PMCPMC4297985

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