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Plankton: the paradox and the power law
Richard Law, José A. Cuesta, Gustav W. Delius
Two basic features of assemblages of unicellular plankton: (1) their high biodiversity and (2) the power-law structure of their abundance, can be explained by an allometric scaling…
Sheldon Spectrum and the Plankton Paradox: Two Sides of the Same Coin. A trait-based plankton size-spectrum model
José A. Cuesta, Gustav W. Delius, Richard Law
The Sheldon spectrum describes a remarkable regularity in aquatic ecosystems: the biomass density as a function of logarithmic body mass is approximately constant over many orders…
Predation effects on mean time to extinction under demographic stochasticity
Gian Marco Palamara, Gustav W. Delius, Matthew J. Smith +1
Methods for predicting the probability and timing of a species' extinction are typically based on a combination of theoretical models and empirical data, and focus on single specie…
A scale-invariant model of marine population dynamics
Jose A. Capitan, Gustav W. Delius
A striking feature of the marine ecosystem is the regularity in its size spectrum: the abundance of organisms as a function of their weight approximately follows a power law over a…
A stability analysis of the power-law steady state of marine size spectra
Samik Datta, Gustav W. Delius, Richard Law +1
This paper investigates the stability of the power-law steady state often observed in marine ecosystems. Three dynamical systems are considered, describing the abundance of organis…
A jump-growth model for predator-prey dynamics: derivation and application to marine ecosystems
Samik Datta, Gustav W. Delius, Richard Law
This paper investigates the dynamics of biomass in a marine ecosystem. A stochastic process is defined in which organisms undergo jumps in body size as they catch and eat smaller o…