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ArticleNational science review2021

Synchronization within synchronization: transients and intermittency in ecological networks.

Huawei Fan, Ling-Wei Kong, Xingang Wang, Alan Hastings, Ying-Cheng Lai

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Huawei FanSchool of Physics and Information Technology, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an 710062, China.
Ling-Wei KongSchool of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287, USA.
Xingang WangSchool of Physics and Information Technology, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an 710062, China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6851-0109
Alan HastingsDepartment of Environmental Science and Policy, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA.
Ying-Cheng LaiSchool of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287, USA.

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Abstract

Transients are fundamental to ecological systems with significant implications to management, conservation and biological control. We uncover a type of transient synchronization behavior in spatial ecological networks whose local dynamics are of the chaotic, predator-prey type. In the parameter regime where there is phase synchronization among all the patches, complete synchronization (i.e. synchronization in both phase and amplitude) can arise in certain pairs of patches as determined by the network symmetry-henceforth the phenomenon of  'synchronization within synchronization.' Distinct patterns of complete synchronization coexist but, due to intrinsic instability or noise, each pattern is a transient and there is random, intermittent switching among the patterns in the course of time evolution. The probability distribution of the transient time is found to follow an algebraic scaling law with a divergent average transient lifetime. Based on symmetry considerations, we develop a stability analysis to understand these phenomena. The general principle of symmetry can also be exploited to explain previously discovered, counterintuitive synchronization behaviors in ecological networks.

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cluster synchronizationecological networksnetwork symmetryphase synchronizationtransient chaos

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PMID34858600
PMCPMC8566182

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