SYNCHRONIZATION IN ECOLOGICAL NETWORKS: A BYPRODUCT OF DARWINIAN EVOLUTION?

Synchronization in Ecological Networks: a Byproduct of Darwinian Evolution?

Evolution and synchronization in ecological networks

Goal To investigate how evolution affects synchronization in ecological networks. Plant and animal populations seldom live in a single homogeneous area, since landscapes are often spatially fragmented into various patches. Migration between different patches may be considerable, especially when patches are not too distant from one another. Such spatially structured populations are described as ...

Ecological Networks: From Structural Analysis to Synchronization

Ecological systems are exposed and are influenced by various natural and anthropogenic disturbances. They produce various effects and states seeking response symmetry to a state of global phase coherence or stability and balance of their food webs. This research project addresses the development of a computational methodology for modeling plankton food webs. The use of algorithms to establish c...

Darwinian Evolution on a Chip

Computer control of Darwinian evolution has been demonstrated by propagating a population of RNA enzymes in a microfluidic device. The RNA population was challenged to catalyze the ligation of an oligonucleotide substrate under conditions of progressively lower substrate concentrations. A microchip-based serial dilution circuit automated an exponential growth phase followed by a 10-fold dilutio...

Darwinian model of evolution

The remarkable feature of life is its ability to self-reproduce. Self-replicating systems fit in naturally with Darwin's evolution scheme. However, I argue here that what Darwin thought was natural selection driven by the struggle for existence is indeed a manifestation of the zeroth law of thermodynamics. When this law is applied to competing self-replicating entities biological evolution appe...