Organization of ecosystems in the vicinity of a novel phase transition.
It is shown that an ecosystem in equilibrium is generally organized in a state which is poised in the vicinity of a novel phase transition.
Volkov
Igor
I
Department of Physics, The Pennsylvania State University, 104 Davey Laboratory, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA.
Banavar
Jayanth R
JR
Maritan
Amos
A
D000818:Animals; D017753:Ecosystem; D006801:Humans; D008954:Models, Biological