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ArticleNature communications2015

Emergent long-range synchronization of oscillating ecological populations without external forcing described by Ising universality.

Andrew E Noble, Jonathan Machta, Alan Hastings

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Article in Nature communications, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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  5. Growth, death, and resource competition in sessile organisms.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021
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  7. Dynamical Ising model of spatially coupled ecological oscillators.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2020
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  11. Spatial patterns of tree yield explained by endogenous forces through a correspondence between the Ising model and ecology.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2018
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  12. The evolutionary origins of Lévy walk foraging.PLoS computational biology · 2017
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Andrew E NobleDepartment of Environmental Science and Policy, University of California, Davis, California 95616, USA.
Jonathan MachtaDepartment of Physics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003, USA.
Alan HastingsDepartment of Environmental Science and Policy, University of California, Davis, California 95616, USA.

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Abstract

Understanding the synchronization of oscillations across space is fundamentally important to many scientific disciplines. In ecology, long-range synchronization of oscillations in spatial populations may elevate extinction risk and signal an impending catastrophe. The prevailing assumption is that synchronization on distances longer than the dispersal scale can only be due to environmental correlation (the Moran effect). In contrast, we show how long-range synchronization can emerge over distances much longer than the length scales of either dispersal or environmental correlation. In particular, we demonstrate that the transition from incoherence to long-range synchronization of two-cycle oscillations in noisy spatial population models is described by the Ising universality class of statistical physics. This result shows, in contrast to all previous work, how the Ising critical transition can emerge directly from the dynamics of ecological populations.

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EcologyModels, TheoreticalPopulation DynamicsDemographyLogistic Models

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PMID25851364
PMCPMC4403441

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