Insights from the study of complex systems for the ecology and evolution of animal populations.

chaos complex system complexity population dynamics social network stochasticity

Journal

Current zoology

ISSN: 1674-5507

Titre abrégé: Curr Zool

Pays: England

ID NLM: 101508778

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
Feb 2020

Historique:

received: 12 12 2018

accepted: 02 04 2019

entrez: 30 5 2020

pubmed: 30 5 2020

medline: 30 5 2020

Statut: ppublish

Résumé

Populations of animals comprise many individuals, interacting in multiple contexts, and displaying heterogeneous behaviors. The interactions among individuals can often create population dynamics that are fundamentally deterministic yet display unpredictable dynamics. Animal populations can, therefore, be thought of as complex systems. Complex systems display properties such as nonlinearity and uncertainty and show emergent properties that cannot be explained by a simple sum of the interacting components. Any system where entities compete, cooperate, or interfere with one another may possess such qualities, making animal populations similar on many levels to complex systems. Some fields are already embracing elements of complexity to help understand the dynamics of animal populations, but a wider application of complexity science in ecology and evolution has not occurred. We review here how approaches from complexity science could be applied to the study of the interactions and behavior of individuals within animal populations and highlight how this way of thinking can enhance our understanding of population dynamics in animals. We focus on 8 key characteristics of complex systems: hierarchy, heterogeneity, self-organization, openness, adaptation, memory, nonlinearity, and uncertainty. For each topic we discuss how concepts from complexity theory are applicable in animal populations and emphasize the unique insights they provide. We finish by outlining outstanding questions or predictions to be evaluated using behavioral and ecological data. Our goal throughout this article is to familiarize animal ecologists with the basics of each of these concepts and highlight the new perspectives that they could bring to variety of subfields.

Identifiants

DOI: 10.1093/cz/zoz016 PMID: 32467699 PMC: PMC7245006

pubmed: 32467699

doi: 10.1093/cz/zoz016

pii: zoz016

pmc: PMC7245006

doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Pagination

1-14

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