Models of ecological communities: genericity and criticality

Seminar
QUEST Center event
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Speaker
Guy Bunin
Date
24/04/2018 - 14:30 - 13:30Add to Calendar 2018-04-24 13:30:00 2018-04-24 14:30:00 Models of ecological communities: genericity and criticality Theoretical models are central to how we think of ecosystems, and yet in many aspects remain poorly understood. We identify a small number of parameters that are sufficient to predict the large-scale properties of a wide variety ecological-community models. These parameters thus play a role similar to temperature and pressure in thermodynamics. We go on to study the generic model that emerges, and describe its phases, including a critical phase where all states are marginally stable. Resnick (Bldg. 209) 2nd floor seminar room Department of Physics physics.dept@mail.biu.ac.il Asia/Jerusalem public
Place
Resnick (Bldg. 209) 2nd floor seminar room
Abstract

Theoretical models are central to how we think of ecosystems, and yet in many aspects remain poorly understood. We identify a small number of parameters that are sufficient to predict the large-scale properties of a wide variety ecological-community models. These parameters thus play a role similar to temperature and pressure in thermodynamics. We go on to study the generic model that emerges, and describe its phases, including a critical phase where all states are marginally stable.

Last Updated Date : 24/04/2018