Ecology

The random matrix model The present work is built around a variation of Robert May’s18 analysis introduced in the 1970’s to study the controversial question: “Will a large complex system be stable?” Instead of May’s linear dynamics, the classical nonlinear Lotka–Volterra equations of multi-species systems are taken advantage of. For a community of n-species, the […] More

Rural population Representation of human population density was used to redistribute data on cassava production per province or district in 30 countries of West, central, East and southern Africa. Data were obtained from the LandScan 201422 raster population density layer developed as part of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) Global Population Project at a […] More