3 papers
q-bio.PE2017
Fixation and absorption in a fluctuating environment
Matan Danino, Nadav M. Shnerb
A fundamental problem in the fields of population genetics, evolution, and community ecology, is the fate of a single mutant, or invader, introduced in a finite population of wild…
q-bio.PE2016
Spatial neutral dynamics
Matan Danino, Yahav Shem-Tov, Nadav M. Shnerb
Neutral models, in which individual agents with equal fitness undergo a birth-death-mutation process, are very popular in population genetics and community ecology. Usually these m…
q-bio.PE2016
The effect of environmental stochasticity on species richness in neutral communities
Matan Danino, Nadav M. Shnerb, Sandro Azaele +2
Environmental stochasticity is known to be a destabilizing factor, increasing abundance fluctuations and extinction rates of populations. However, the stability of a community may…