6 citations
2 papers
q-bio.PE2024★ 6 cited
Les Houches Lectures on Community Ecology: From Niche Theory to Statistical Mechanics
Wenping Cui, Robert Marsland, Pankaj Mehta
Ecosystems are among the most interesting and well-studied examples of self-organized complex systems. Community ecology, the study of how species interact with each other and the…
q-bio.PE2023★ 1 cited
Emergent competition shapes the ecological properties of multi-trophic ecosystems
Zhijie Feng, Robert Marsland, Jason W. Rocks +1
Ecosystems are commonly organized into trophic levels -- organisms that occupy the same level in a food chain (e.g., plants, herbivores, carnivores). A fundamental question in theo…