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Mir H, Stidham J, Pleimling M. Emerging spatiotemporal patterns in cyclic predator-prey systems with habitats. Phys Rev E 2022; 105:054401. [PMID: 35706181 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.105.054401] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/20/2022] [Accepted: 04/15/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Three-species cyclic predator-prey systems are known to establish spiral waves that allow species to coexist. In this study, we analyze a structured heterogeneous system which gives one species an advantage to escape predation in an area that we refer to as a habitat and study the effect on species coexistence and emerging spatiotemporal patterns. Counterintuitively, the predator of the advantaged species emerges as dominant species with the highest average density inside the habitat. The species given the advantage in the form of an escape rate has the lowest average density until some threshold value for the escape rate is exceeded, after which the density of the species with the advantage overtakes that of its prey. Numerical analysis of the spatial density of each species as well as of the spatial two-point correlation function for both inside and outside the habitats allow a detailed quantitative discussion. Our analysis is extended to a six-species game that exhibits spontaneous spiral waves, which displays similar but more complicated results.
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- Hana Mir
- Department of Physics and Center for Soft Matter and Biological Physics, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061-0435, USA
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- Department of Physics and Center for Soft Matter and Biological Physics, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061-0435, USA
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- Department of Physics and Center for Soft Matter and Biological Physics, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061-0435, USA
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Yang Y, Hui C. How competitive intransitivity and niche overlap affect spatial coexistence. OIKOS 2020. [DOI: 10.1111/oik.07735] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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- Yinghui Yang
- School of Mathematics, Southwest Jiaotong Univ. Chengdu China
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- Centre for Invasion Biology, Dept of Mathematical Sciences, Stellenbosch Univ. Matieland South Africa
- Biodiversity Informatics Unit, African Inst. for Mathematical Sciences Cape Town South Africa
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Baker R, Pleimling M. The effect of habitats and fitness on species coexistence in systems with cyclic dominance. J Theor Biol 2020; 486:110084. [PMID: 31758965 DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2019.110084] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/30/2019] [Accepted: 11/15/2019] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Cyclic dominance between species may yield spiral waves that are known to provide a mechanism enabling persistent species coexistence. This observation holds true even in presence of spatial heterogeneity in the form of quenched disorder. In this work we study the effects on spatio-temporal patterns and species coexistence of structured spatial heterogeneity in the form of habitats that locally provide one of the species with an advantage. Performing extensive numerical simulations of systems with three and six species we show that these structured habitats destabilize spiral waves. Analyzing extinction events, we find that species extinction probabilities display a succession of maxima as function of time, that indicate a periodically enhanced probability for species extinction. Analysis of the mean extinction time reveals that as a function of the parameter governing the advantage of one of the species a transition between stable coexistence and unstable coexistence takes place. We also investigate how efficiency as a predator or a prey affects species coexistence.
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- Ryan Baker
- Academy of Integrated Science, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA 24061-0563, USA
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- Academy of Integrated Science, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA 24061-0563, USA; Department of Physics, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA 24061-0435, USA; Center for Soft Matter and Biological Physics, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA 24061-0435, USA.
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Brown BL, Meyer-Ortmanns H, Pleimling M. Dynamically generated hierarchies in games of competition. Phys Rev E 2019; 99:062116. [PMID: 31330747 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.99.062116] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/24/2018] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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Spatial many-species predator-prey systems have been shown to yield very rich space-time patterns. This observation begs the question whether there exist universal mechanisms for generating this type of emerging complex patterns in nonequilibrium systems. In this work we investigate the possibility of dynamically generated hierarchies in predator-prey systems. We analyze a nine-species model with competing interactions and show that the studied situation results in the spontaneous formation of spirals within spirals. The parameter dependence of these intriguing nested spirals is elucidated. This is achieved through the numerical investigation of various quantities (correlation lengths, densities of empty sites, Fourier analysis of species densities, interface fluctuations) that allows us to gain a rather complete understanding of the spatial arrangements and the temporal evolution of the system. A possible generalization of the interaction scheme yielding dynamically generated hierarchies is discussed. As cyclic interactions occur spontaneously in systems with competing strategies, the mechanism discussed in this work should contribute to our understanding of various social and biological systems.
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- Barton L Brown
- Department of Physics, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061-0435, USA.,Center for Soft Matter and Biological Physics, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061-0435, USA
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- Department of Physics, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061-0435, USA.,Center for Soft Matter and Biological Physics, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061-0435, USA.,Academy of Integrated Science, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061-0563, USA
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Laird RA. Sequential interactions-in which one player plays first and another responds-promote cooperation in evolutionary-dynamical simulations of single-shot Prisoner's Dilemma and Snowdrift games. J Theor Biol 2018; 452:69-80. [PMID: 29763610 DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2018.05.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/01/2017] [Revised: 05/01/2018] [Accepted: 05/08/2018] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Cooperation is a central topic in evolutionary biology because (a) it is difficult to reconcile why individuals would act in a way that benefits others if such action is costly to themselves, and (b) it underpins many of the 'major transitions of evolution', making it essential for explaining the origins of successively higher levels of biological organization. Within evolutionary game theory, the Prisoner's Dilemma and Snowdrift games are the main theoretical constructs used to study the evolution of cooperation in dyadic interactions. In single-shot versions of these games, wherein individuals play each other only once, players typically act simultaneously rather than sequentially. Allowing one player to respond to the actions of its co-player-in the absence of any possibility of the responder being rewarded for cooperation or punished for defection, as in simultaneous or sequential iterated games-may seem to invite more incentive for exploitation and retaliation in single-shot games, compared to when interactions occur simultaneously, thereby reducing the likelihood that cooperative strategies can thrive. To the contrary, I use lattice-based, evolutionary-dynamical simulation models of single-shot games to demonstrate that under many conditions, sequential interactions have the potential to enhance unilaterally or mutually cooperative outcomes and increase the average payoff of populations, relative to simultaneous interactions-benefits that are especially prevalent in a spatially explicit context. This surprising result is attributable to the presence of conditional strategies that emerge in sequential games that can't occur in the corresponding simultaneous versions.
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- Robert A Laird
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Lethbridge, AB T1K 3M4 Canada.
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Brown BL, Pleimling M. Coarsening with nontrivial in-domain dynamics: Correlations and interface fluctuations. Phys Rev E 2017; 96:012147. [PMID: 29347265 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.96.012147] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/05/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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Using numerical simulations we investigate the space-time properties of a system in which spirals emerge within coarsening domains, thus giving rise to nontrivial internal dynamics. Initially proposed in the context of population dynamics, the studied six-species model exhibits growing domains composed of three species in a rock-paper-scissors relationship. Through the investigation of different quantities, such as space-time correlations and the derived characteristic length, autocorrelation, density of empty sites, and interface width, we demonstrate that the nontrivial dynamics inside the domains affects the coarsening process as well as the properties of the interfaces separating different domains. Domain growth, aging, and interface fluctuations are shown to be governed by exponents whose values differ from those expected in systems with curvature driven coarsening.
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- Barton L Brown
- Department of Physics, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061-0435, USA
- Center for Soft Matter and Biological Physics, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061-0435, USA
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- Department of Physics, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061-0435, USA
- Center for Soft Matter and Biological Physics, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061-0435, USA
- Academy of Integrated Science, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061-0405, USA
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Uekermann F, Mathiesen J, Mitarai N. Characterization of phase transitions in a model ecosystem of sessile species. Phys Rev E 2017; 95:032409. [PMID: 28415313 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.95.032409] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/01/2016] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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We consider a model ecosystem of sessile species competing for space. In particular, we consider the system introduced by Mathiesen et al. [J. Mathiesen, N. Mitarai, K. Sneppen, and A. Trusina, Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 188101 (2011)PRLTAO0031-900710.1103/PhysRevLett.107.188101] where species compete according to a fixed interaction network with links determined by a Bernoulli process. In the limit of a small introduction rate of new species, the model exhibits a discontinuous transition from a high-diversity state to a low-diversity state as the interaction probability between species, γ, is increased from zero. Here we explore the effects of finite introduction rates and system size on the phase transition by utilizing efficient parallel computing. We find that the low state appears for γ>γ_{c}. As γ is increased further, the high state approaches the low state, suggesting the possibility that the two states merge at a high γ. We find that the fraction of time spent in the high state becomes longer with higher introduction rates, but the availability of the two states is rather insensitive to the value of the introduction rate. Furthermore, we establish a relation between the introduction rate and the system size, which preserves the probability for the system to remain in the high-diversity state.
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- Florian Uekermann
- Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen University, Blegdamsvej 17, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen University, Blegdamsvej 17, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen University, Blegdamsvej 17, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
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Roman A, Dasgupta D, Pleimling M. A theoretical approach to understand spatial organization in complex ecologies. J Theor Biol 2016; 403:10-16. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2016.05.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/28/2016] [Accepted: 05/05/2016] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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Mitarai N, Gunnarson I, Pedersen BN, Rosiek CA, Sneppen K. Three is much more than two in coarsening dynamics of cyclic competitions. Phys Rev E 2016; 93:042408. [PMID: 27176330 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.93.042408] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/01/2015] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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The classical game of rock-paper-scissors has inspired experiments and spatial model systems that address the robustness of biological diversity. In particular, the game nicely illustrates that cyclic interactions allow multiple strategies to coexist for long-time intervals. When formulated in terms of a one-dimensional cellular automata, the spatial distribution of strategies exhibits coarsening with algebraically growing domain size over time, while the two-dimensional version allows domains to break and thereby opens the possibility for long-time coexistence. We consider a quasi-one-dimensional implementation of the cyclic competition, and study the long-term dynamics as a function of rare invasions between parallel linear ecosystems. We find that increasing the complexity from two to three parallel subsystems allows a transition from complete coarsening to an active steady state where the domain size stays finite. We further find that this transition happens irrespective of whether the update is done in parallel for all sites simultaneously or done randomly in sequential order. In both cases, the active state is characterized by localized bursts of dislocations, followed by longer periods of coarsening. In the case of the parallel dynamics, we find that there is another phase transition between the active steady state and the coarsening state within the three-line system when the invasion rate between the subsystems is varied. We identify the critical parameter for this transition and show that the density of active boundaries has critical exponents that are consistent with the directed percolation universality class. On the other hand, numerical simulations with the random sequential dynamics suggest that the system may exhibit an active steady state as long as the invasion rate is finite.
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- Namiko Mitarai
- Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Blegdamsvej 17, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Blegdamsvej 17, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Blegdamsvej 17, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Blegdamsvej 17, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Blegdamsvej 17, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
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Szolnoki A, Chen X. Benefits of tolerance in public goods games. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2015; 92:042813. [PMID: 26565295 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.92.042813] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/31/2015] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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Leaving the joint enterprise when defection is unveiled is always a viable option to avoid being exploited. Although loner strategy helps the population not to be trapped into the tragedy of the commons state, it could offer only a modest income for nonparticipants. In this paper we demonstrate that showing some tolerance toward defectors could not only save cooperation in harsh environments but in fact results in a surprisingly high average payoff for group members in public goods games. Phase diagrams and the underlying spatial patterns reveal the high complexity of evolving states where cyclic dominant strategies or two-strategy alliances can characterize the final state of evolution. We identify microscopic mechanisms which are responsible for the superiority of global solutions containing tolerant players. This phenomenon is robust and can be observed both in well-mixed and in structured populations highlighting the importance of tolerance in our everyday life.
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- Attila Szolnoki
- Institute of Technical Physics and Materials Science, Centre for Energy Research, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 49, H-1525 Budapest, Hungary
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- School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 611731, China
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Hummert S, Bohl K, Basanta D, Deutsch A, Werner S, Theissen G, Schroeter A, Schuster S. Evolutionary game theory: cells as players. MOLECULAR BIOSYSTEMS 2015; 10:3044-65. [PMID: 25270362 DOI: 10.1039/c3mb70602h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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In two papers we review game theory applications in biology below the level of cognitive living beings. It can be seen that evolution and natural selection replace the rationality of the actors appropriately. Even in these micro worlds, competing situations and cooperative relationships can be found and modeled by evolutionary game theory. Also those units of the lowest levels of life show different strategies for different environmental situations or different partners. We give a wide overview of evolutionary game theory applications to microscopic units. In this first review situations on the cellular level are tackled. In particular metabolic problems are discussed, such as ATP-producing pathways, secretion of public goods and cross-feeding. Further topics are cyclic competition among more than two partners, intra- and inter-cellular signalling, the struggle between pathogens and the immune system, and the interactions of cancer cells. Moreover, we introduce the theoretical basics to encourage scientists to investigate problems in cell biology and molecular biology by evolutionary game theory.
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- Sabine Hummert
- Fachhochschule Schmalkalden, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Blechhammer, 98574 Schmalkalden, Germany
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Intoy B, Pleimling M. Synchronization and extinction in cyclic games with mixed strategies. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2015; 91:052135. [PMID: 26066147 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.91.052135] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/22/2015] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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We consider cyclic Lotka-Volterra models with three and four strategies where at every interaction agents play a strategy using a time-dependent probability distribution. Agents learn from a loss by reducing the probability to play a losing strategy at the next interaction. For that, an agent is described as an urn containing β balls of three and four types, respectively, where after a loss one of the balls corresponding to the losing strategy is replaced by a ball representing the winning strategy. Using both mean-field rate equations and numerical simulations, we investigate a range of quantities that allows us to characterize the properties of these cyclic models with time-dependent probability distributions. For the three-strategy case in a spatial setting we observe a transition from neutrally stable to stable when changing the level of discretization of the probability distribution. For large values of β, yielding a good approximation to a continuous distribution, spatially synchronized temporal oscillations dominate the system. For the four-strategy game the system is always neutrally stable, but different regimes emerge, depending on the size of the system and the level of discretization.
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- Ben Intoy
- Department of Physics, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061-0435, USA
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- Department of Physics, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061-0435, USA
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Mesoscopic interactions and species coexistence in evolutionary game dynamics of cyclic competitions. Sci Rep 2014; 4:7486. [PMID: 25501627 PMCID: PMC4265771 DOI: 10.1038/srep07486] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/01/2014] [Accepted: 11/27/2014] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Evolutionary dynamical models for cyclic competitions of three species (e.g., rock, paper, and scissors, or RPS) provide a paradigm, at the microscopic level of individual interactions, to address many issues in coexistence and biodiversity. Real ecosystems often involve competitions among more than three species. By extending the RPS game model to five (rock-paper-scissors-lizard-Spock, or RPSLS) mobile species, we uncover a fundamental type of mesoscopic interactions among subgroups of species. In particular, competitions at the microscopic level lead to the emergence of various local groups in different regions of the space, each involving three species. It is the interactions among the groups that fundamentally determine how many species can coexist. In fact, as the mobility is increased from zero, two transitions can occur: one from a five- to a three-species coexistence state and another from the latter to a uniform, single-species state. We develop a mean-field theory to show that, in order to understand the first transition, group interactions at the mesoscopic scale must be taken into account. Our findings suggest, more broadly, the importance of mesoscopic interactions in coexistence of great many species.
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Szolnoki A, Mobilia M, Jiang LL, Szczesny B, Rucklidge AM, Perc M. Cyclic dominance in evolutionary games: a review. J R Soc Interface 2014; 11:20140735. [PMID: 25232048 PMCID: PMC4191105 DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2014.0735] [Citation(s) in RCA: 143] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/07/2014] [Accepted: 08/22/2014] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Rock is wrapped by paper, paper is cut by scissors and scissors are crushed by rock. This simple game is popular among children and adults to decide on trivial disputes that have no obvious winner, but cyclic dominance is also at the heart of predator-prey interactions, the mating strategy of side-blotched lizards, the overgrowth of marine sessile organisms and competition in microbial populations. Cyclical interactions also emerge spontaneously in evolutionary games entailing volunteering, reward, punishment, and in fact are common when the competing strategies are three or more, regardless of the particularities of the game. Here, we review recent advances on the rock-paper-scissors (RPS) and related evolutionary games, focusing, in particular, on pattern formation, the impact of mobility and the spontaneous emergence of cyclic dominance. We also review mean-field and zero-dimensional RPS models and the application of the complex Ginzburg-Landau equation, and we highlight the importance and usefulness of statistical physics for the successful study of large-scale ecological systems. Directions for future research, related, for example, to dynamical effects of coevolutionary rules and invasion reversals owing to multi-point interactions, are also outlined.
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- Attila Szolnoki
- Institute of Technical Physics and Materials Science, Research Centre for Natural Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, PO Box 49, 1525 Budapest, Hungary
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- Department of Applied Mathematics, School of Mathematics, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK
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- College of Physics and Electronic Information Engineering, Wenzhou University, 325035 Wenzhou, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Applied Mathematics, School of Mathematics, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK
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- Department of Applied Mathematics, School of Mathematics, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK
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- Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, University of Maribor, Koroška cesta 160, 2000 Maribor, Slovenia
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Varga L, Vukov J, Szabó G. Self-organizing patterns in an evolutionary rock-paper-scissors game for stochastic synchronized strategy updates. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2014; 90:042920. [PMID: 25375580 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.90.042920] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/15/2014] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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We study a spatial evolutionary rock-paper-scissors game with synchronized strategy updating. Players gain their payoff from games with their four neighbors on a square lattice and can update their strategies simultaneously according to the logit rule, which is the noisy version of the best-response dynamics. For the synchronized strategy update two types of global oscillations (with an ordered strategy arrangement and periods of three and six generations) can occur in this system in the zero noise limit. At low noise values, all nine oscillating phases are present in the system by forming a self-organizing spatial pattern due to the comprising invasion and speciation processes along the interfaces separating the different domains.
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- Levente Varga
- Institute of Technical Physics and Materials Science, Research Centre for Natural Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 49, H-1525 Budapest, Hungary and Babeş-Bolyai University, RO-400084 Cluj-Napoca, Romania
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- Institute of Technical Physics and Materials Science, Research Centre for Natural Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 49, H-1525 Budapest, Hungary
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- Institute of Technical Physics and Materials Science, Research Centre for Natural Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 49, H-1525 Budapest, Hungary
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Rulands S, Jahn D, Frey E. Specialization and bet hedging in heterogeneous populations. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2014; 113:108102. [PMID: 25238387 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.113.108102] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/04/2014] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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Phenotypic heterogeneity is a strategy commonly used by bacteria to rapidly adapt to changing environmental conditions. Here, we study the interplay between phenotypic heterogeneity and genetic diversity in spatially extended populations. By analyzing the spatiotemporal dynamics, we show that the level of mobility and the type of competition qualitatively influence the persistence of phenotypic heterogeneity. While direct competition generally promotes persistence of phenotypic heterogeneity, specialization dominates in models with indirect competition irrespective of the degree of mobility.
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- Steffen Rulands
- Department of Physics, Arnold-Sommerfeld-Center for Theoretical Physics and Center for NanoScience, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Theresienstrasse 37, D-80333 Munich, Germany
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- Department of Physics, Arnold-Sommerfeld-Center for Theoretical Physics and Center for NanoScience, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Theresienstrasse 37, D-80333 Munich, Germany
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- Department of Physics, Arnold-Sommerfeld-Center for Theoretical Physics and Center for NanoScience, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Theresienstrasse 37, D-80333 Munich, Germany
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Avelino PP, Bazeia D, Losano L, Menezes J, de Oliveira BF. Interfaces with internal structures in generalized rock-paper-scissors models. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2014; 89:042710. [PMID: 24827281 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.89.042710] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/06/2013] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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In this work we investigate the development of stable dynamical structures along interfaces separating domains belonging to enemy partnerships in the context of cyclic predator-prey models with an even number of species N≥8. We use both stochastic and field theory simulations in one and two spatial dimensions, as well as analytical arguments, to describe the association at the interfaces of mutually neutral individuals belonging to enemy partnerships and to probe their role in the development of the dynamical structures at the interfaces. We identify an interesting behavior associated with the symmetric or asymmetric evolution of the interface profiles depending on whether N/2 is odd or even, respectively. We also show that the macroscopic evolution of the interface network is not very sensitive to the internal structure of the interfaces. Although this work focuses on cyclic predator-prey models with an even number of species, we argue that the results are expected to be quite generic in the context of spatial stochastic May-Leonard models.
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- P P Avelino
- Centro de Astrofísica da Universidade do Porto, 4150-762 Porto, Portugal and Departamento de Física e Astronomia, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade do Porto, 4169-007 Porto, Portugal
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- Departamento de Física, Universidade Federal da Paraíba 58051-970 João Pessoa, PB, Brazil
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- Departamento de Física, Universidade Federal da Paraíba 58051-970 João Pessoa, PB, Brazil
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- Escola de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte Caixa Postal 1524, 59072-970, Natal, RN, Brazil and Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics, University of Amsterdam, Science Park 904, 1098 XH Amsterdam, Netherlands
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- Departamento de Física, Universidade Estadual de Maringá, 87020-900 Maringá, PR, Brazil
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Rulquin C, Arenzon JJ. Globally synchronized oscillations in complex cyclic games. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2014; 89:032133. [PMID: 24730816 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.89.032133] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/27/2014] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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The rock-paper-scissors game and its generalizations with S>3 species are well-studied models for cyclically interacting populations. Four is, however, the minimum number of species that, by allowing other interactions beyond the single, cyclic loop, breaks both the full intransitivity of the food graph and the one-predator, one-prey symmetry. Lütz et al. [J. Theor. Biol. 317, 286 (2013)] have shown the existence, on a square lattice, of two distinct phases, with either four or three coexisting species. In both phases, each agent is eventually replaced by one of its predators, but these strategy oscillations remain localized as long as the interactions are short ranged. Distant regions may be either out of phase or cycling through different food-web subloops (if any). Here we show that upon replacing a minimum fraction Q of the short-range interactions by long-range ones, there is a Hopf bifurcation, and global oscillations become stable. Surprisingly, to build such long-distance, global synchronization, the four-species coexistence phase requires fewer long-range interactions than the three-species phase, while one would naively expect the opposite to be true. Moreover, deviations from highly homogeneous conditions (χ=0 or 1) increase Qc, and the more heterogeneous is the food web, the harder the synchronization is. By further increasing Q, while the three-species phase remains stable, the four-species one has a transition to an absorbing, single-species state. The existence of a phase with global oscillations for S>3, when the interaction graph has multiple subloops and several possible local cycles, leads to the conjecture that global oscillations are a general characteristic, even for large, realistic food webs.
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- Charlotte Rulquin
- École Normale Supérieure, International Center of Fundamental Physics, 45 Rue d'Ulm, 75005 Paris, France and Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Caixa Postal 15051, 91501-970 Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
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- Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Caixa Postal 15051, 91501-970 Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
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Botta F, Mitarai N. Disturbance accelerates the transition from low- to high-diversity state in a model ecosystem. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2014; 89:022704. [PMID: 25353506 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.89.022704] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/02/2013] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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The effect of disturbance on a model ecosystem of sessile and mutually competitive species [Mathiesen et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 188101 (2011); Mitarai et al., Phys. Rev. E 86, 011929 (2012)] is studied. The disturbance stochastically removes individuals from the system, and the created empty sites are recolonized by neighboring species. We show that the stable high-diversity state, maintained by occasional cyclic species interactions that create isolated patches of metapopulations, is robust against small disturbance. We further demonstrate that finite disturbance can accelerate the transition from the low- to high-diversity state by helping the creation of small patches through diffusion of boundaries between species with standoff relations.
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- Filippo Botta
- Center for Models of Life, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Blegdamsvej 17, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Center for Models of Life, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Blegdamsvej 17, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
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Laird RA. Population interaction structure and the coexistence of bacterial strains playing ‘rock-paper-scissors’. OIKOS 2014. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2013.00879.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Dobrinevski A, Alava M, Reichenbach T, Frey E. Mobility-dependent selection of competing strategy associations. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2014; 89:012721. [PMID: 24580271 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.89.012721] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/28/2013] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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Standard models of population dynamics focus on the interaction, survival, and extinction of the competing species individually. Real ecological systems, however, are characterized by an abundance of species (or strategies, in the terminology of evolutionary-game theory) that form intricate, complex interaction networks. The description of the ensuing dynamics may be aided by studying associations of certain strategies rather than individual ones. Here we show how such a higher-level description can bear fruitful insight. Motivated from different strains of colicinogenic Escherichia coli bacteria, we investigate a four-strategy system which contains a three-strategy cycle and a neutral alliance of two strategies. We find that the stochastic, spatial model exhibits a mobility-dependent selection of either the three-strategy cycle or of the neutral pair. We analyze this intriguing phenomenon numerically and analytically.
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- Alexander Dobrinevski
- CNRS-Laboratoire de Physique Théorique de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure, 24 rue Lhomond, 75005 Paris Cedex, France
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- Aalto University, School of Science, Department of Applied Physics, PO Box 11100, 00076 Aalto, Finland
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- Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus, London, SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom
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- Arnold Sommerfeld Center for Theoretical Physics and Center for NanoScience, Department of Physics, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Theresienstrasse 37, D-80333 München, Germany
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Messinger SM, Ostling A. Predator attack rate evolution in space: the role of ecology mediated by complex emergent spatial structure and self-shading. Theor Popul Biol 2013; 89:55-63. [PMID: 23973393 DOI: 10.1016/j.tpb.2013.08.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/13/2013] [Revised: 07/16/2013] [Accepted: 08/07/2013] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Predation interactions are an important element of ecological communities. Population spatial structure has been shown to influence predator evolution, resulting in the evolution of a reduced predator attack rate; however, the evolutionary role of traits governing predator and prey ecology is unknown. The evolutionary effect of spatial structure on a predator's attack rate has primarily been explored assuming a fixed metapopulation spatial structure, and understood in terms of group selection. But endogenously generated, emergent spatial structure is common in nature. Furthermore, the evolutionary influence of ecological traits may be mediated through the spatial self-structuring process. Drawing from theory on pathogens, the evolutionary effect of emergent spatial structure can be understood in terms of self-shading, where a voracious predator limits its long-term invasion potential by reducing local prey availability. Here we formalize the effects of self-shading for predators using spatial moment equations. Then, through simulations, we show that in a spatial context self-shading leads to relationships between predator-prey ecology and the predator's attack rate that are not expected in a non-spatial context. Some relationships are analogous to relationships already shown for host-pathogen interactions, but others represent new trait dimensions. Finally, since understanding the effects of ecology using existing self-shading theory requires simplifications of the emergent spatial structure that do not apply well here, we also develop metrics describing the complex spatial structure of the predator and prey populations to help us explain the evolutionary effect of predator and prey ecology in the context of self-shading. The identification of these metrics may provide a step towards expansion of the predictive domain of self-shading theory to more complex spatial dynamics.
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- Susanna M Messinger
- University of Michigan, 2004 Kraus Natural Science Building, 830 North University, Ann Arbor, MI 48103, USA.
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Vukov J, Szolnoki A, Szabó G. Diverging fluctuations in a spatial five-species cyclic dominance game. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2013; 88:022123. [PMID: 24032791 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.88.022123] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/06/2013] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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A five-species predator-prey model is studied on a square lattice where each species has two prey and two predators on the analogy to the rock-paper-scissors-lizard-Spock game. The evolution of the spatial distribution of species is governed by site exchange and invasion between the neighboring predator-prey pairs, where the cyclic symmetry can be characterized by two different invasion rates. The mean-field analysis has indicated periodic oscillations in the species densities with a frequency becoming zero for a specific ratio of invasion rates. When varying the ratio of invasion rates, the appearance of this zero-eigenvalue mode is accompanied by neutrality between the species associations. Monte Carlo simulations of the spatial system reveal diverging fluctuations at a specific invasion rate, which can be related to the vanishing dominance between all pairs of species associations.
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- Jeromos Vukov
- Institute of Technical Physics and Materials Science, Research Centre for Natural Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 49, H-1525 Budapest, Hungary
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Lütz AF, Risau-Gusman S, Arenzon JJ. Intransitivity and coexistence in four species cyclic games. J Theor Biol 2013; 317:286-92. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2012.10.024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/31/2012] [Revised: 09/06/2012] [Accepted: 10/18/2012] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Mitarai N, Mathiesen J, Sneppen K. Emergence of diversity in a model ecosystem. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2012; 86:011929. [PMID: 23005473 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.86.011929] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/13/2012] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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The biological requirements for an ecosystem to develop and maintain species diversity are in general unknown. Here we consider a model ecosystem of sessile and mutually excluding organisms competing for space [Mathiesen et al. Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 188101 (2011)]. Competition is controlled by an interaction network with fixed links chosen by a Bernoulli process. New species are introduced in the system at a predefined rate. In the limit of small introduction rates, the system becomes bistable and can undergo a phase transition from a state of low diversity to high diversity. We suggest that isolated patches of metapopulations formed by the collapse of cyclic relations are essential for the transition to the state of high diversity.
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- Namiko Mitarai
- Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Blegdamsvej 17, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
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Mathiesen J, Mitarai N, Sneppen K, Trusina A. Ecosystems with mutually exclusive interactions self-organize to a state of high diversity. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2011; 107:188101. [PMID: 22107676 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.107.188101] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/04/2011] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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Ecological systems comprise an astonishing diversity of species that cooperate or compete with each other forming complex mutual dependencies. The minimum requirements to maintain a large species diversity on long time scales are in general unknown. Using lichen communities as an example, we propose a model for the evolution of mutually excluding organisms that compete for space. We suggest that chainlike or cyclic invasions open for creation of spatially separated subpopulations that subsequently can lead to increased diversity. In contrast to its nonspatial counterpart, our model predicts robust coexistence of a large number of species. It is demonstrated that large species diversity can be obtained on evolutionary time scales, provided that interactions between species have spatial constraints. In particular, a phase transition to a sustainable state of high diversity is identified.
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- Joachim Mathiesen
- Niels Bohr Institute/CMOL, University of Copenhagen, Blegdamsvej-17, DK2100, Copenhagen, Denmark
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Jiang LL, Zhou T, Perc M, Wang BH. Effects of competition on pattern formation in the rock-paper-scissors game. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2011; 84:021912. [PMID: 21929025 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.84.021912] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/15/2011] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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We investigate the impact of cyclic competition on pattern formation in the rock-paper-scissors game. By separately considering random and prepared initial conditions, we observe a critical influence of the competition rate p on the stability of spiral waves and on the emergence of biodiversity. In particular, while increasing values of p promote biodiversity, they may act detrimentally on spatial pattern formation. For random initial conditions, we observe a phase transition from biodiversity to an absorbing phase, whereby the critical value of mobility grows linearly with increasing values of p on a log-log scale but then saturates as p becomes large. For prepared initial conditions, we observe the formation of single-armed spirals, but only for values of p that are below a critical value. Once above that value, the spirals break up and form disordered spatial structures, mainly because of the percolation of vacant sites. Thus there exists a critical value of the competition rates p(c) for stable single-armed spirals in finite populations. Importantly though, p(c) increases with increasing system size because noise reinforces the disintegration of ordered patterns. In addition, we also find that p(c) increases with the mobility. These phenomena are reproduced by a deterministic model that is based on nonlinear partial differential equations. Our findings indicate that competition is vital for the sustenance of biodiversity and the emergence of pattern formation in ecosystems governed by cyclical interactions.
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- Luo-Luo Jiang
- College of Physics and Electronic Information Engineering, Wenzhou University, Wenzhou 325027, China
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Wang J, Wu B, Chen X, Wang L. Evolutionary dynamics of public goods games with diverse contributions in finite populations. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2010; 81:056103. [PMID: 20866293 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.81.056103] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/01/2010] [Indexed: 05/29/2023]
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The public goods game is a powerful metaphor for exploring the maintenance of social cooperative behavior in a group of interactional selfish players. Here we study the emergence of cooperation in the public goods games with diverse contributions in finite populations. The theory of stochastic process is innovatively adopted to investigate the evolutionary dynamics of the public goods games involving a diversity of contributions. In the limit of rare mutations, the general stationary distribution of this stochastic process can be analytically approximated by means of diffusion theory. Moreover, we demonstrate that increasing the diversity of contributions greatly reduces the probability of finding the population in a homogeneous state full of defectors. This increase also raises the expectation of the total contribution in the entire population and thus promotes social cooperation. Furthermore, by investigating the evolutionary dynamics of optional public goods games with diverse contributions, we find that nonparticipation can assist players who contribute more in resisting invasion and taking over individuals who contribute less. In addition, numerical simulations are performed to confirm our analytical results. Our results may provide insight into the effect of diverse contributions on cooperative behaviors in the real world.
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- Jing Wang
- Center for Systems and Control, State Key Laboratory for Turbulence and Complex Systems, College of Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China.
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Zhang GY, Chen Y, Qi WK, Qing SM. Four-state rock-paper-scissors games in constrained Newman-Watts networks. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2009; 79:062901. [PMID: 19658545 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.79.062901] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/07/2009] [Revised: 05/09/2009] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
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We study the cyclic dominance of three species in two-dimensional constrained Newman-Watts networks with a four-state variant of the rock-paper-scissors game. By limiting the maximal connection distance Rmax in Newman-Watts networks with the long-range connection probability p , we depict more realistically the stochastic interactions among species within ecosystems. When we fix mobility and vary the value of p or Rmax, the Monte Carlo simulations show that the spiral waves grow in size, and the system becomes unstable and biodiversity is lost with increasing p or Rmax. These results are similar to recent results of Reichenbach et al. [Nature (London) 448, 1046 (2007)], in which they increase the mobility only without including long-range interactions. We compared extinctions with or without long-range connections and computed spatial correlation functions and correlation length. We conclude that long-range connections could improve the mobility of species, drastically changing their crossover to extinction and making the system more unstable.
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- Guo-Yong Zhang
- Institute of Theoretical Physics, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China
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Han SG, Park SC, Kim BJ. Reentrant phase transition in a predator-prey model. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2009; 79:066114. [PMID: 19658571 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.79.066114] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/08/2008] [Revised: 04/17/2009] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
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We numerically investigate the six-species predator-prey game in complex networks as well as in d -dimensional regular hypercubic lattices with d=1,2,...,6 . The food-web topology of the six species contains two directed loops, each of which is composed of cyclically predating three species. As the mutation rate is lowered below the well-defined phase transition point, the Z2 symmetry related with the interchange in the two loops is spontaneously broken, and it has been known that the system develops the defensive alliance in which three cyclically predating species defend each other against the invasion of other species. In the Watts-Strogatz small-world network structure characterized by the rewiring probability alpha , the phase diagram shows the reentrant behavior as alpha is varied, indicating a twofold role of the shortcuts. In d -dimensional regular hypercubic lattices, the system also exhibits the reentrant phase transition as d is increased. We identify universality class of the phase transition and discuss the proper mean-field limit of the system.
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- Sung-Guk Han
- Department of Physics and BK21 Physics Research Division, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon 440-746, Korea
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Laird RA, Schamp BS. Does local competition increase the coexistence of species in intransitive networks? Ecology 2008; 89:237-47. [PMID: 18376565 DOI: 10.1890/07-0117.1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Competitive intransitivity, a situation in which species' competitive ranks cannot be listed in a strict hierarchy, promotes species coexistence through "enemy's enemy indirect facilitation." Theory suggests that intransitivity-mediated coexistence is enhanced when competitive interactions occur at local spatial scales, although this hypothesis has not been thoroughly tested. Here, we use a lattice model to investigate the effect of local vs. global competition on intransitivity-mediated coexistence across a range of species richness values and levels of intransitivity. Our simulations show that local competition can enhance intransitivity-mediated coexistence in the short-term, yet hinder it in the long-term, when compared to global competition. This occurs because local competition slows species disaggregation, allowing weaker competitors to persist longer in the shifting spatial refuges of intransitive networks, enhancing short-term coexistence. Conversely, our simulations show that, in the long-term, local competition traps disaggregated species in unfavorable areas of the competitive arena, where they are excluded by superior competitors. As a result, in the long-term, global intransitive competition allows a greater number of species to coexist than local intransitive competition.
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- Robert A Laird
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4, Canada.
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Claussen JC, Traulsen A. Cyclic dominance and biodiversity in well-mixed populations. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2008; 100:058104. [PMID: 18352437 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.100.058104] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/19/2007] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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Coevolutionary dynamics is investigated in chemical catalysis, biological evolution, social and economic systems. The dynamics of these systems can be analyzed within the unifying framework of evolutionary game theory. In this Letter, we show that even in well-mixed finite populations, where the dynamics is inherently stochastic, biodiversity is possible with three cyclic-dominant strategies. We show how the interplay of evolutionary dynamics, discreteness of the population, and the nature of the interactions influences the coexistence of strategies. We calculate a critical population size above which coexistence is likely.
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- Jens Christian Claussen
- Institut für Theoretische Physik und Astrophysik, Christian-Albrechts Universität, Olshausenstrasse 40, 24098 Kiel, Germany
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Szabó P, Czárán T, Szabó G. Competing associations in bacterial warfare with two toxins. J Theor Biol 2007; 248:736-44. [PMID: 17686495 DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2007.06.022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/21/2007] [Revised: 06/28/2007] [Accepted: 06/28/2007] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Simple combinations of common competitive mechanisms can easily result in cyclic competitive dominance relationships between species. The topological features of such competitive networks allow for complex spatial coexistence patterns. We investigate self-organization and coexistence in a lattice model, describing the spatial population dynamics of competing bacterial strains. With increasing diffusion rate the community of the nine possible toxicity/resistance types undergoes two phase transitions. Below a critical level of diffusion, the system exhibits expanding domains of three different defensive alliances, each consisting of three cyclically dominant species. Due to the neutral relationship between these alliances and the finite system size effect, ultimately only one of them remains. At large diffusion rates the system admits three coexisting domains, each containing mutually neutral species. Because of the cyclical dominance between these domains, a long term stable coexistence of all species is ensured. In the third phase at intermediate diffusion the spatial structure becomes even more complicated with domains of mutually neutral species persisting along the borders of defensive alliances. The study reveals that cyclic competitive relationships may produce a large variety of complex coexistence patterns, exhibiting common features of natural ecosystems, like hierarchical organization, phase transitions and sudden, large-scale fluctuations.
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- Péter Szabó
- Department of Biological Physics, Eötvös University, Pázmány P. stny. 1/A, H-1117 Budapest, Hungary.
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Perc M, Szolnoki A, Szabó G. Cyclical interactions with alliance-specific heterogeneous invasion rates. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2007; 75:052102. [PMID: 17677118 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.75.052102] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/13/2006] [Indexed: 05/16/2023]
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We study a six-species Lotka-Volterra-type system on different two-dimensional lattices when each species has two superior and two inferior partners. The invasion rates from predator sites to a randomly chosen neighboring prey site depend on the predator-prey pair, whereby cyclic symmetries within the two three-species defensive alliances are conserved. Monte Carlo simulations reveal an unexpected nonmonotonous dependence of alliance survival on the difference of alliance-specific invasion rates. This behavior is qualitatively reproduced by a four-point mean-field approximation. The study addresses fundamental problems of stability for the competition of two defensive alliances and thus has important implications in natural and social sciences.
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- Matjaz Perc
- Department of Physics, Faculty of Education, University of Maribor, Koroska cesta 160, Maribor, Slovenia
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Laird RA, Schamp BS. Competitive intransitivity promotes species coexistence. Am Nat 2006; 168:182-93. [PMID: 16874628 DOI: 10.1086/506259] [Citation(s) in RCA: 189] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/01/2006] [Accepted: 05/09/2006] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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Using a spatially explicit cellular automaton model with local competition, we investigate the potential for varied levels of competitive intransitivity (i.e., nonhierarchical competition) to promote species coexistence. As predicted, on average, increased levels of intransitivity result in more sustained coexistence within simulated communities, although the outcome of competition also becomes increasingly unpredictable. Interestingly, even a moderate degree of intransitivity within a community can promote coexistence, in terms of both the length of time until the first competitive exclusion and the number of species remaining in the community after 500 simulated generations. These results suggest that modest levels of intransitivity in nature, such as those that are thought to be characteristic of plant communities, can contribute to coexistence and, therefore, community-scale biodiversity. We explore a potential connection between competitive intransitivity and neutral theory, whereby competitive intransitivity may represent an important mechanism for "ecological equivalence."
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- Robert A Laird
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4, Canada.
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Kim BJ, Liu J, Um J, Lee SI. Instability of defensive alliances in the predator-prey model on complex networks. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2005; 72:041906. [PMID: 16383419 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.72.041906] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/02/2005] [Indexed: 05/05/2023]
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A model of six-species food web is studied in the viewpoint of spatial interaction structures. Each species has two predators and two preys, and it was previously known that the defensive alliances of three cyclically predating species self-organize in two dimensions. The alliance-breaking transition occurs as either the mutation rate is increased or interaction topology is randomized in the scheme of the Watts-Strogatz model. In the former case of temporal disorder, via the finite-size scaling analysis, the transition is clearly shown to belong to the two-dimensional Ising universality class. In contrast, the geometric or spatial randomness for the latter case yields a discontinuous phase transition. The mean-field limit of the model is analytically solved and then compared with numerical results. The dynamic universality and the temporally periodic behaviors are also discussed.
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- Beom Jun Kim
- Department of Molecular Science and Technology, Ajou University, Suwon 442-749, Korea.
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Szolnoki A, Szabó G. Phase transitions for rock-scissors-paper game on different networks. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2004; 70:037102. [PMID: 15524674 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.70.037102] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/07/2004] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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Monte Carlo simulations and dynamical mean-field approximations are performed to study the phase transitions in the rock-scissors-paper game on different host networks. These graphs are originated from lattices by introducing quenched and annealed randomness simultaneously. In the resulting phase diagrams three different stationary states are identified for all structures. The comparison of results on different networks suggests that the value of the clustering coefficient plays an irrelevant role in the emergence of a global oscillating phase. The critical behavior of phase transitions seems to be universal and can be described by the same exponents.
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- Attila Szolnoki
- Research Institute for Technical Physics and Materials Science, P.O. Box 49, H-1525 Budapest, Hungary
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Szabó G, Arial Sznaider G. Phase transition and selection in a four-species cyclic predator-prey model. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2004; 69:031911. [PMID: 15089326 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.69.031911] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/19/2003] [Revised: 12/03/2003] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
Abstract
We study a four-species ecological system with cyclic dominance whose individuals are distributed on a square lattice. Randomly chosen individuals migrate to one of the neighboring sites if it is empty or invade this site if occupied by their prey. The cyclic dominance maintains the coexistence of all four species if the concentration of vacant sites is lower than a threshold value. Above the threshold, a symmetry breaking ordering occurs via growing domains containing only two neutral species inside. These two neutral species can protect each other from the external invaders (predators) and extend their common territory. According to our Monte Carlo simulations the observed phase transition seems to be equivalent to those found in spreading models with two equivalent absorbing states although the present model has continuous sets of absorbing states with different portions of the two neutral species. The selection mechanism yielding symmetric phases is related to the domain growth process with wide boundaries where the four species coexist.
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Affiliation(s)
- György Szabó
- Research Institute for Technical Physics and Materials Science, PO Box 49, H-1525 Budapest, Hungary
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Szabó G, Szolnoki A, Izsák R. Rock-scissors-paper game on regular small-world networks. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2004. [DOI: 10.1088/0305-4470/37/7/006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 144] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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