Cyclical interactions with alliance-specific heterogeneous invasion rates
Cyclical interactions with alliance-specific heterogeneous invasion rates
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DOI:
10.1103/physreve.75.052102
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发表时间:
2007-05-01
影响因子:
2.4
通讯作者:
Szabo, Gyorgy
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作者:
Perc, Matjaz;Szolnoki, Attila;Szabo, Gyorgy
We study a six-species Lotka-Volterra-type system on different two-dimensional lattices when each species has two superior and two inferior partners. The invasion rates from predator sites to a randomly chosen neighboring prey site depend on the predator-prey pair, whereby cyclic symmetries within the two three-species defensive alliances are conserved. Monte Carlo simulations reveal an unexpected nonmonotonous dependence of alliance survival on the difference of alliance-specific invasion rates. This behavior is qualitatively reproduced by a four-point mean-field approximation. The study addresses fundamental problems of stability for the competition of two defensive alliances and thus has important implications in natural and social sciences.