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Kategorie Textpublikation
Referenztyp Zeitschriften
DOI 10.1088/1742-5468/ad2b57
Lizenz creative commons licence
Titel (primär) Pulsed interactions unify reaction–diffusion and spatial nonlocal models for biological pattern formation
Autor Colombo, E.H.; Martinez-Garcia, R.; Calabrese, J.M.; López, C.; Hernández-García, E.
Quelle Journal of Statistical Mechanics-Theory and Experiment
Erscheinungsjahr 2024
Department OESA
Band/Volume 2024
Heft 3
Seite von art. 034001
Sprache englisch
Topic T5 Future Landscapes
Keywords pattern formation; population dynamics; coarse-graining; nonlinear dynamics
Abstract The emergence of a spatially organized population distribution depends on the dynamics of the population and mediators of interaction (activators and inhibitors). Two broad classes of models have been used to investigate when and how self-organization is triggered, namely reaction–diffusion and spatially nonlocal models. Nevertheless, these models implicitly assume smooth propagation scenarios, neglecting that individuals interact many times by exchanging short and abrupt pulses of the mediating substance. A recently proposed framework has made advances in properly accounting for these short-scale fluctuations by applying a coarse-graining procedure on the pulse dynamics. In this paper, we generalize the coarse-graining procedure and apply the extended formalism to new scenarios in which mediators influence individuals' reproductive success or their motility. We show that, in the slow- and fast-mediator limits, pulsed interactions recover, respectively, the reaction–diffusion and nonlocal models, providing a mechanistic connection between them. Furthermore, at each limit, the spatial stability condition is qualitatively different, leading to a timescale-induced transition where spatial patterns emerge as mediator dynamics becomes sufficiently fast.
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Colombo, E.H., Martinez-Garcia, R., Calabrese, J.M., López, C., Hernández-García, E. (2024):
Pulsed interactions unify reaction–diffusion and spatial nonlocal models for biological pattern formation
J. Stat. Mech.-Theory Exp. 2024 (3), art. 034001 10.1088/1742-5468/ad2b57