Stratigraphy of a random acyclic directed graph: The size of trophic levels in the cascade model (Q687699)

The authors claim that the random graph problem considered in this paper has an application in the field of ecological food webs, which may be described by acyclic directed graphs. The trophic levels of species of plants or animals correspond in this framework to the levels of a random digraph \(D(n,c)\) with \(n\) vertices and edge probability \(c/n\). The edges are directed from the vertex with the greater number to the vertex with the smaller one. The size of levels and the number of edges between two levels in \(D(n,c)\) are given.