papers
Publications (3)
physics.bio-ph2024
Revealing Physical Mechanisms of Pattern Formation and Switching in Ecosystems via Nonequilibrium Landscape and Flux
Jie Su, Wei Wu, Denis Patterson +2
Spatial patterns are widely observed in numerous nonequilibrium natural systems, often undergoing complex transitions and bifurcations, thereby exhibiting significant importance in…
q-bio.PE2023
Modeling Immunity to Malaria with an Age-Structured PDE Framework
Zhuolin Qu, Denis Patterson, Lauren Childs +4
Malaria is one of the deadliest infectious diseases globally, causing hundreds of thousands of deaths each year. It disproportionately affects young children, with two-thirds of fa…
q-bio.PE2021
Unifying deterministic and stochastic ecological dynamics via a landscape-flux approach
Li Xu, Denis Patterson, Ann Carla Staver +2
We develop a landscape-flux framework to investigate observed frequency distributions of vegetation and the stability of these ecological systems under fluctuations. The frequency…