As we know all very well, in theoretical ecology the devil is in the details. Jose and I found that slightly altering the interaction rules for competition on a lattice can produce very different results. The findings are in a new paper in Ecology: Interaction rules affect species coexistence in intransitive networks José Rojas-Echenique & ... Read more 12 May 2011 - 1 minute read
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A new article by Allesina & Levine in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences proposes a new theory of biodiversity. In a new article, published this week in PNAS, Jonathan Levine and I propose a new biodiversity theory based on “rock-paper-scissor” intransitive dynamics. Here’s the abstract: Non-hierarchical competition betwee... Read more 17 Mar 2011 - 1 minute read
Nature news covers our paper (but only the drinking part…) Nature News covers our paper about Highly Cited Ecologists & Environmental Scientists. In the end, they take only the fun bit about how much do these scientists drink (which originated from this paper by Grim). Here’s the piece in Nature News Read more 16 Sep 2010 - less than 1 minute read
The James S. McDonnell Foundation awards a “Studying Complex Systems” grant to the Allesina Lab. The project will be done in collaboration with the Bergelson Lab at the University of Chicago and will involve an experimental part and a modeling/mathematical part. The project will last 4 years. The funding ($449K) will support 2 graduate students... Read more 30 Aug 2010 - less than 1 minute read