ArticlePhysical review letters2024
Phase Transition to Chaos in Complex Ecosystems with Nonreciprocal Species-Resource Interactions.
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Abstract
Nonreciprocal interactions between microscopic constituents can profoundly shape the large-scale properties of complex systems. Here, we investigate the effects of nonreciprocity in the context of theoretical ecology by analyzing a generalization of MacArthur's consumer-resource model with asymmetric interactions between species and resources. Using a mixture of analytic cavity calculations and numerical simulations, we show that such ecosystems generically undergo a phase transition to chaotic dynamics as the amount of nonreciprocity is increased. We analytically construct the phase diagram for this model and show that the emergence of chaos is controlled by a single quantity: the ratio of surviving species to surviving resources. We also numerically calculate the Lyapunov exponents in the chaotic phase and carefully analyze finite-size effects. Our findings show how nonreciprocal interactions can give rise to complex and unpredictable dynamical behaviors even in the simplest ecological consumer-resource models.
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