title: Chaos-induced coherence in two independent food chains.
abstract: Coherence evolution of two food web models can be obtained under the stirring effect of chaotic advection. Each food web model sustains a three-level trophic system composed of interacting predators, consumers, and vegetation. These populations compete for a common limiting resource in open flows with chaotic advection dynamics. Here we show that two species (the top predators) of different colonies chaotically advected by a jetlike flow can synchronize their evolution even without migration interaction. The evolution is characterized as a phase synchronization. The phase differences (determined through the Hilbert transform) of the variables representing those species show a coherent evolution.
authors.affiliation: Instituto de Física, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de la República, Iguá 4225, 11400 Montevideo, Uruguay.
authors.forename: Adriana
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Auyuanet
authors.forename: Arturo C
authors.initials: AC
authors.lastname: Martí
authors.forename: Raúl
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Montagne
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001683:Biological Clocks / Q000502:physiology*; D005075:Biological Evolution; D003163:Competitive Behavior / Q000502:physiology*; D003198:Computer Simulation; D020387:Food Chain; D006801:Humans; D008954:Models, Biological; D017711:Nonlinear Dynamics; D011157:Population Dynamics; D011235:Predatory Behavior / Q000502:physiology*