Trajectories toward maximum power and inequality in resource distribution networks.

ABSTRACT: Resource distribution networks are the infrastructure facilitating the flow of resources in both biotic and abiotic systems. Both theoretical and empirical arguments have proposed that physical systems self-organise to maximise power production, but how this trajectory is related to network development, especially regarding the heterogeneity of resource distribution in explicitly spatial networks, is less understood. Quantifying the heterogeneity of resource distribution is necessary for understanding how phenomena such as economic inequality or energetic niches emerge across socio-ecological and environmental systems. Although qualitative discussions have been put forward on this topic, to date there has not been a quantitative analysis of the relationship between network development, max

SUBMITTER: Davis N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7064246 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature