Organization of Ecosystems in the Vicinity of a Novel Phase Transition

Abstract

It is shown that an ecosystem in equilibrium is generally organized in a state which is poised in the vicinity of a novel phase transition.

4 pages, 2 figures

References in corpus (1)

• Neutral Theory and Relative Species Abundance in Ecology

Cited by in corpus (2)

• Evidence of scale-free clusters of vegetation in tropical rainforests
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