Spatially Synchronous Extinction of Species under External Forcing

Amritkar, RE and Rangarajan, Govindan (2006) Spatially Synchronous Extinction of Species under External Forcing. In: Physical Review Letters, 96 (25). 258102-1-258102-4.

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Abstract

More than 99% of the species that ever existed on the surface of the Earth are now extinct and their extinction on a global scale has been a puzzle. One may think that a species under an external threat may survive in some isolated locations leading to the revival of the species. Using a general model we show that, under a common external forcing, the species with a quadratic saturation term first undergoes spatial synchronization and then extinction. The effect can be observed even when the external forcing acts only on some locations provided the dynamics contains a synchronizing term. Absence of the quadratic saturation term can help the species to avoid extinction

Item Type:	Journal Article
Publication:	Physical Review Letters
Publisher:	American Physical Society
Additional Information:	Copyright of this articlebelongs to American Physical Society.
Department/Centre:	Division of Physical & Mathematical Sciences > Mathematics
Date Deposited:	09 Apr 2009 07:28
Last Modified:	19 Sep 2010 04:59
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/17928

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