Synchrony in tritrophic food chain metacommunities

Belykh, I., Piccardi, C., & Rinaldi, S. (2009). Synchrony in tritrophic food chain metacommunities. Biological Dynamics 3 (5) 497-514. 10.1080/17513750802638381.

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Abstract

The synchronous behaviour of interacting communities is studied in this paper. Each community is descibed by a tritrophic food chain model, and the communities interact through a network with arbitrary topology, composed of patches and migration corridors. The analysis of the local synchroniztion properties (via the master stability function approach) shows that, if only one species can migrate, the dispersal of the consumer (i.e., the intermediate trophic level) is the most effective mchanism for promoting synchronization. When analysing the effects of the variations of demographic parameters, it is found that factors that stabilize the single community also tend to favour synchronization. Global synchronization is finally analysed by means of the connection graph method, yielding a lower bound on the value of the dispersion rate that guarantees the synchronization of the metacommunity for a given network topology.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	food chain; metacommunity; network; synchronization
Research Programs:	Evolution and Ecology (EEP)
Bibliographic Reference:	Biological Dynamics; 3(5):497-514 (September 2009)
Depositing User:	IIASA Import
Date Deposited:	15 Jan 2016 08:41
Last Modified:	27 Aug 2021 17:20
URI:	https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/8783

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