Species Abundance Patterns in Complex Evolutionary Dynamics
Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems
2009-11-10 v1 Populations and Evolution
Abstract
An analytic theory of species abundance patterns (SAPs) in biological networks is presented. The theory is based on multispecies replicator dynamics equivalent to the Lotka-Volterra equation, with diverse interspecies interactions. Various SAPs observed in nature are derived from a single parameter. The abundance distribution is formed like a widely observed left-skewed lognormal distribution. As the model has a general form, the result can be applied to similar patterns in other complex biological networks, e.g. gene expression.
Cite
@article{arxiv.nlin/0409033,
title = {Species Abundance Patterns in Complex Evolutionary Dynamics},
author = {Kei Tokita},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nlin/0409033},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
4 pages, 3 figures. Physical Review Letters, in press