The evolutionary origins of Lévy walk foraging

ME Wosniack, MC Santos, EP Raposo… - PLoS computational …, 2017 - journals.plos.org
We study through a reaction-diffusion algorithm the influence of landscape diversity on the
efficiency of search dynamics. Remarkably, the identical optimal search strategy arises in a …

The fate of Ernst Ising and the fate of his model

T Ising, R Folk, R Kenna, B Berche… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2017 - arxiv.org
On this, the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the" Ising Lectures" in Lviv (Ukraine), we give
some personal reflections about the famous model that was suggested by Wilhelm Lenz for …

Spatial patterns of tree yield explained by endogenous forces through a correspondence between the Ising model and ecology

AE Noble, TS Rosenstock, PH Brown… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
Spatial patterning of periodic dynamics is a dramatic and ubiquitous ecological
phenomenon arising in systems ranging from diseases to plants to mammals. The degree to …

Synchronization of gene expression across eukaryotic communities through chemical rhythms

S Pérez-García, M García-Navarrete… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The synchronization is a recurring phenomenon in neuroscience, ecology, human sciences,
and biology. However, controlling synchronization in complex eukaryotic consortia on …

Lizard skin patterns and the Ising model

S Zakany, S Smirnov, MC Milinkovitch - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
The ocellated lizard (Timon lepidus) exhibits an intricate skin color pattern made of
monochromatic black and green skin scales, whose dynamics of color flipping are known to …

[HTML][HTML] Long-living transients in ecological models: recent progress, new challenges, and open questions

A Morozov, U Feudel, A Hastings, KC Abbott… - Physics of Life …, 2024 - Elsevier
Traditionally, mathematical models in ecology placed an emphasis on asymptotic, long-term
dynamics. However, a large number of recent studies highlighted the importance of transient …

A global perspective on the climate‐driven growth synchrony of neighbouring trees

E Tejedor, R Serrano‐Notivoli, M de Luis… - Global Ecology and …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Previous work demonstrated the global variability of synchrony in tree growth within
populations, that is, the covariance of the year‐to‐year variability in growth of individual …

Growth, death, and resource competition in sessile organisms

ED Lee, CP Kempes, GB West - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Population-level scaling in ecological systems arises from individual growth and death with
competitive constraints. We build on a minimal dynamical model of metabolic growth where …

Spatial biology of Ising-like synthetic genetic networks

K Simpson, A L'Homme, J Keymer, F Federici - BMC biology, 2023 - Springer
Background Understanding how spatial patterns of gene expression emerge from the
interaction of individual gene networks is a fundamental challenge in biology. Developing a …

[HTML][HTML] Chaos synchronization in discrete-time dynamical systems with application in population dynamics

T Azizi, G Kerr - Journal of applied mathematics and physics, 2020 - scirp.org
Study of chaotic synchronization as a fundamental phenomenon in the nonlinear dynamical
systems theory has been recently raised many interests in science, engineering, and …