Spatial Rock-Paper-Scissors Models with Inhomogeneous Reaction Rates

Details Spatial Rock-Paper-Scissors Models with Inhomogeneous Reaction Rates Spatial Rock-Paper-Scissors Models with Inhomogeneous Reaction Rates

2010-04-29

arxiv.org/abs/1004.5275v2

Phys. Rev. E 82 (2010) 051909

Biology

Quantitative Biology

Populations and Evolution

11 pages, revtex, 17 figures, to appear in Phys. Rev. E (2010)

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.82.051909

We study several variants of the stochastic four-state rock-paper-scissors game or, equivalently, cyclic three-species predator-prey models with conserved total particle density, by means of Monte Carlo simulations on one- and two-dimensional lattices. Specifically, we investigate the influence of spatial variability of the reaction rates and site occupancy restrictions on the transient oscillations of the species densities and on spatial correlation functions in the quasi-stationary coexistence state. For small systems, we also numerically determine the dependence of typical extinction times on the number of lattice sites. In stark contrast with two-species stochastic Lotka-Volterra systems, we find that for our three-species models with cyclic competition quenched disorder in the reaction rates has very little effect on the dynamics and the long-time properties of the coexistence state. Similarly, we observe that site restriction only has a minor influence on the system's dynamical properties. Our results therefore demonstrate that the features of the spatial rock-paper-scissors system are remarkably robust with respect to model variations, and stochastic fluctuations as well as spatial correlations play a comparatively minor role.

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