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most citedStatistical Mechanics of Ecological Systems: Neutral Theory and Beyond

175 citations · 386 across the 38 of their papers we have counts for

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39 papers

q-bio.PE2026

Fluctuating growth rate and spatial diffusion shape plankton diversity

Giorgio Vittorio Visco, Kobe Simoens, Emanuele Pigani +4

Planktonic communities exhibit ubiquitous population distributions and patchy spatial structures, yet the fundamental mechanisms driving them remain debated. Here, we derive these…

q-bio.PE2026

Dispersal diversity buffers species vulnerability to local extinction

Davide Bernardi, Giorgio Nicoletti, Prajwal Padmanabha +5

Predicting species persistence within ecological communities is a fundamental challenge for both empirical and theoretical ecology. Existing methods span from mechanistic models, w…

q-bio.PE2026

Pathogen diversity emerging from coevolutionary dynamics in interconnected systems

Davide Zanchetta, Vittoria Bettio, Sandro Azaele +1

The spread of infectious disease and the evolution of antigenically distinct strains are often modeled separately, despite strong feedbacks mediated by host immune memory and heter…

cond-mat.dis-nn2026

Will a time-varying complex system be stable?

Francesco Ferraro, Christian Grilletta, Amos Maritan +2

Randomly-assembled dynamical systems are theoretically predicted to be unstable upon crossing a critical threshold of complexity, as first shown by May. Yet, empirical complex syst…

q-bio.NC2026

Pulse desynchronization of neural populations by targeting the centroid of the limit cycle in phase space

Ramón Guevara, Marco Zenari, Giorgio Nicoletti +4

The synchronized activity of neuronal populations can lead to pathological over-synchronization in conditions such as epilepsy and Parkinson disease. Such states can be desynchroni…

q-bio.PE2026

Habitat heterogeneity and dispersal network structure as drivers of metacommunity dynamics

Davide Bernardi, Alice Doimo, Giorgio Nicoletti +5

Spatial structure and species interactions jointly shape the dynamics and biodiversity of ecological systems, yet most theoretical models either neglect spatial heterogeneity or sa…