Universal abundance fluctuations across microbial communities, tropical forests, and urban populations.

ABSTRACT: The growth of complex populations, such as microbial communities, forests, and cities, occurs over vastly different spatial and temporal scales. Although research in different fields has developed detailed, system-specific models to understand each individual system, a unified analysis of different complex populations is lacking; such an analysis could deepen our understanding of each system and facilitate cross-pollination of tools and insights across fields. Here, we use a shared framework to analyze time-series data of the human gut microbiome, tropical forest, and urban employment. We demonstrate that a single, three-parameter model of stochastic population dynamics can reproduce the empirical distributions of population abundances and fluctuations in all three datasets. The three para

SUBMITTER: George AB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10622915 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature