Analytic solution of Hubbell's model of local community dynamics

DOI10.1016/J.TPB.2003.08.001zbMATH Open1105.92045arXivphysics/0305022OpenAlexW2041061499WikidataQ31029326 ScholiaQ31029326MaRDI QIDQ851338FDOQ851338

Authors: Alan J. McKane, David Alonso, Ricard Solé 

Publication date: 20 November 2006

Published in: Theoretical Population Biology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Recent theoretical approaches to community structure and dynamics reveal that many large-scale features of community structure (such as species-rank distributions and species-area relations) can be explained by a so-called neutral model. Using this approach, species are taken to be equivalent and trophic relations are not taken into account explicitly. Here we provide a general analytic solution to the local community model of Hubbell's neutral theory of biodiversity by recasting it as an urn model i.e.a Markovian description of states and their transitions. Both stationary and time-dependent distributions are analysed. The stationary distribution -- also called the zero-sum multinomial -- is given in closed form. An approximate form for the time-dependence is obtained by using an expansion of the master equation. The temporal evolution of the approximate distribution is shown to be a good representation for the true temporal evolution for a large range of parameter values.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0305022

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zbMATH Keywords

Abundance distributionAnalytic solutionCommunity dynamicsHubbell's neutral theoryZero-sum multinomial

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of Markov chains and discrete-time Markov processes on general state spaces (social mobility, learning theory, industrial processes, etc.) (60J20) Ecology (92D40) Combinatorial probability (60C05)

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