Statistical Physics has proved essential to analyze multi-agent environments. Motivated by the empirical observation of various non-equilibrium features in Barro Colorado and other ecological systems, we analyze a plant-species abundance model, presenting analytical evidence of scale-invariant plant clusters and non-trivial emergent modular correlations. Such first theoretical confirmation of a scale-invariant region, based on percolation processes, reproduces the key features in actual ecological ecosystems and can confer the most stable equilibrium for ecosystems with vast biodiversity.
@article{arxiv.2106.02419,
title = {Emergent spatial patterns of coexistence in species-rich plant communities},
author = {Pablo Villegas and Tommaso Gili and Guido Caldarelli},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2106.02419},
year = {2021}
}