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SUMMARY:ECOSYSTEM DYNAMICS DRIVEN BY METABOLISM: EMERGENCE OF SELF-SIMILAR
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DTSTART:20121022T161500
DTEND:20121022T171500
DTSTAMP:20260408T154153Z
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Prof. Amos Maritan\nDipartimento di Fisica G. Galilei\, Univer
 sita di Padova\, Italy\nEcological communities exhibit pervasive patterns 
 and interrelationships between size\, abundance\, and the availability of 
 resources. Non-equilibrium statistical mechanics is the natural candidate 
 to develop a unified framework for understanding the distribution of organ
 ism sizes\, their energy use\, and spatial distribution. We demonstrate th
 at optimal use of resources\, both at the individual and community level\,
  leads to a consistent scaling theory of tropical forest whose prediction 
 agrees with observational data and matches perfectly with the scaling beha
 vior of an exactly solvable self-similar model of\na forest. The range\, o
 ver which pure power law behavior is observed\, depends on the available a
 mount of resources. The scaling framework can be\nused for assessing the e
 ffects of natural and anthropogenic disturbances on ecosystem structure an
 d functionality.
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