2011/06/23 by Yoshiaki Itoh, Itoh, Yoshiaki
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · Social Sciences · #Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation #Stochastic processes and statistical mechanics #nlin.CG #q-bio.PE
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1106.4701
arxiv created 2011/06/23 · arxiv updated 2011/06/24
The cascade model generates a food web at random. In it the species are labeled from 0 to m, and arcs are given at random between pairs of the species. For an arc with endpoints i and j (i<j), the species i is eaten by the species labeled j. The chain length (height), generated at random, models the length of food chain in ecological data. The aim of this note is to introduce the random sequential generation of intervals as a Poisson model which gives naturally an analogous behavior to the cascade model.