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Different types of synchrony in chaotic and cyclic communities
- Publication Year :
- 2013
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Abstract
- Stability and persistence of populations is of great interest for management and conservation purposes. Spatial dynamics can have a crucial role in population stability via synchronization, and beneficial and detrimental effects on population persistence have been shown. Despite a theoretical understanding of synchronization, empirical data on synchrony of populations are restricted to systems that do not display the full spectrum of complex dynamics that may occur in nature (that is, chaos or quasiperiodicity). Here we show in experiments that the qualitative form of dynamic behaviour of chaotic and periodic oscillating communities did not change when unidirectionally coupled to oscillating driver communities. Driver and response populations were phase locked in cyclic communities, whereas chaotic communities showed only short periods of statistical coherencies. Our study provides the first empirical analysis of synchronization of chaotic communities and shows that the likelihood for chaos is not lowered in spatially explicit systems but that cyclic and chaotic systems differ in synchronization. published
- Subjects :
- Multidisciplinary
Time Factors
Ecology
Population Dynamics
Chaotic
Complex system
General Physics and Astronomy
General Chemistry
Biology
General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
Nonlinear Sciences::Chaotic Dynamics
Chaotic systems
Predatory Behavior
ddc:570
Tetrahymena
Quantitative Biology::Populations and Evolution
Animals
Biological system
Ecosystem
Pedobacter
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....4c2069a7ef8a6b4a527e0653621c9f80