Extinction in Lotka-Volterra model

Details Extinction in Lotka-Volterra model Extinction in Lotka-Volterra model

2009-05-22

arxiv.org/abs/0905.3728v1

Biology

Quantitative Biology

Populations and Evolution

11 pages, 17 figures

Scientific paper

Competitive birth-death processes often exhibit an oscillatory behavior. We investigate a particular case where the oscillation cycles are marginally stable on the mean-field level. An iconic example of such a system is the Lotka-Volterra model of predator-prey competition. Fluctuation effects due to discreteness of the populations destroy the mean-field stability and eventually drive the system toward extinction of one or both species. We show that the corresponding extinction time scales as a certain power-law of the population sizes. This behavior should be contrasted with the extinction of models stable in the mean-field approximation. In the latter case the extinction time scales exponentially with size.

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