Simplicity in high-dimensional dynamics of ecosystems
Simplicity in high-dimensional dynamics of ecosystems
- Event time: 3:00pm until 4:00pm
- Event date: 26th April 2022
- Speaker: Professor Guy Bunin (Physics Department, Technion)
- Location: Online - see email.
Event details
Natural ecosystems exhibit astounding richness, suggesting that we treat them as many-variable interacting systems. This raises two important questions: What collective phenomena might be observed? And how do such complex dynamical systems allow for many species to coexist? I’ll first discuss dynamical phase-transitions in ecosystems, and “thermodynamic” variables which determine their large-scale behaviour. Then, I’ll present a theory for how interactions between species organize to allow many species to coexist. For both parts, data from experiments confirm the theoretical predictions, providing evidence for high-dimensionality in those systems.
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