Centro Austral de Investigaciones Científicas (CADIC)
The Ecological Complex Systems Lab investigates how ecological systems are shaped by interactions across scales—spatial, temporal, and organizational—using complex systems theory, quantitative modeling, and network approaches.
Nos encontramos ante la mayor crisis ecológica de la historia de la humanidad. La acelerada pérdida de biodiversidad no solo afecta a las especies de manera individual, sino que también tiene repercusiones a nivel ecosistémico. Las especies no existen en aislamiento, sino que forman parte de complejas redes de interacciones que estructuran los ecosistemas.
In nature species interact among each other in many ways. The most common and studied interaction is that between a predator and its prey. A food web can be defined as a network of interactions that describes who eats whom in a certain ecosystem and at a certain time of the year. In any ecosystem, in a terrestrial, freshwater or marine environment, the so-called food web is comprised by lots of species (hundreds) and interactions (thousands), showing a complex network of predator-prey interactions.
This is a beautifully simple ecological network model that can simulate predator-prey and competitive multispecies dynamics. This is the B model of the paper 1, I read it long ago and for many years I wanted to make a version of it, finally, I did it.
This is a C++11 implementation of a stochastic multispecies model. The model has multiple applications to investigate the relationship between ecological interactions (competition, predation) and diversity. It involves a discrete definition of individuals belonging to a given set of species. The dynamics are essentially probabilistic at the microscopic scale, but it leads to recognizable macroscopic patterns both in space and time. The model in is actual version is spatially implicit but a spatially explicit version is planned (never did it). You can find the source code at: https://github.com/lsaravia/snim