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 …

Spatially extended population dynamics models that incorporate demographic noise serve
as case studies for the crucial role of fluctuations and correlations in biological systems …

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 …

In population dynamics, the concept of structural stability has been used to quantify the
tolerance of a system to environmental perturbations. Yet, measuring the structural stability …

If rock beats scissors and scissors beat paper, one might assume that rock beats paper too.
But this is not the case for intransitive relationships that make up the famous rock-paper …

Knowing the strategy of an opponent in a competitive environment conveys obvious
evolutionary advantages. But this information is costly, and the benefit of being informed …

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 …

The spatiotemporal arrangement of interacting populations often influences the
maintenance of species diversity and is a subject of intense research. Here, we study the …

We apply a perturbative Doi–Peliti field-theoretical analysis to the stochastic spatially
extended symmetric Rock-paper-Scissors (RPS) and May–Leonard (ML) models, in which …

Predicting the fate of ecologies is a daunting, albeit extremely important, task. As part of this
task one needs to develop an understanding of the organization, hierarchies, and …