期刊
PHYSICS OF LIFE REVIEWS
卷 32, 期 -, 页码 1-40出版社
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.plrev.2019.09.004
关键词
Transient dynamics; Ghost attractor; Transient chaos; Slow-fast systems; Regime shift; Pattern formation
资金
- NIMBioS (National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis, Knoxville TN) in 2017-19
- RFBR [17-05-00799]
- RUDN University Program 5-100
This paper discusses the recent progress in understanding the properties of transient dynamics in complex ecological systems. Predicting long-term trends as well as sudden changes and regime shifts in ecosystems dynamics is a major issue for ecology as such changes often result in population collapse and extinctions. Analysis of population dynamics has traditionally been focused on their long-term, asymptotic behavior whilst largely disregarding the effect of transients. However, there is a growing understanding that in ecosystems the asymptotic behavior is rarely seen. A big new challenge for theoretical and empirical ecology is to understand the implications of long transients. It is believed that the identification of the corresponding mechanisms along with the knowledge of scaling laws of the transient's lifetime should substantially improve the quality of long-term forecasting and crisis anticipation. Although transient dynamics have received considerable attention in physical literature, research into ecological transients is in its infancy and systematic studies are lacking. This text aims to partially bridge this gap and facilitate further progress in quantitative analysis of long transients in ecology. By revisiting and critically examining a broad variety of mathematical models used in ecological applications as well as empirical facts, we reveal several main mechanisms leading to the emergence of long transients and hence lays the basis for a unifying theory. (C) 2019 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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