Competing associations in six-species predator–prey models

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/38/30/005MaRDI QIDQ5314931zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors György Szabó

Publication date 5 September 2005

Published in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/q-bio/0408005

zbMATH Keywords

food webs

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Ecology (92D40)

Abstract: We study a set of six-species ecological models where each species has two predators and two preys. On a square lattice the time evolution is governed by iterated invasions between the neighboring predator-prey pairs chosen at random and by a site exchange with a probability Xs between the neutral pairs. These models involve the possibility of spontaneous formation of different defensive alliances whose members protect each other from the external invaders. The Monte Carlo simulations show a surprisingly rich variety of the stable spatial distributions of species and subsequent phase transitions when tuning the control parameter Xs. These very simple models are able to demonstrate that the competition between these associations influences their composition. Sometimes the dominant association is developed via a domain growth. In other cases larger and larger invasion processes preceed the prevalence of one of the stable asociations. Under some conditions the survival of all the species can be maintained by the cyclic dominance occuring between these associations.

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