2022/06/01 by Stefano Gualandi, Giuseppe Toscani, Gualandi, Stefano +3
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Environmental Science · #Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies #Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies #FOS: Biological sciences #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Multiagent Systems (cs.MA) #Plant and animal studies #Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2206.00495
openalex publication_date 2022/06/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
In this paper, by resorting to classical methods of statistical mechanics, we build a kinetic model able to reproduce the observed statistical weight distribution of many diverse species. The kinetic description of the time variations of the weight distribution is based on elementary interactions that describe in a qualitative and quantitative way successive evolutionary updates, and determine explicit equilibrium distributions. Numerical fittings on mammalian eutherians of the order Chiroptera population illustrates the effectiveness of the approach.