The ecology of echo |
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Authors: | PT Hraber T Jones S Forrest |
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Affiliation: | Department of Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque 87131, USA. pth@santafe.edu |
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Abstract: | Echo is a generic ecosystem model in which evolving agents are situated in a resource-limited environment. The Echo model is described, and the behavior of Echo is evaluated on two well-studied measures of ecological diversity: relative species abundance and the species-area scaling relation. In simulation experiments, these measures are used to compare the behavior of Echo with that of a neutral model, in which selection on agent genotypes is random. These simulations show that the evolutionary component of Echo makes a significant contribution to its behavior and that Echo shows good qualitative agreement with naturally occurring species abundance distributions and species-area scaling relations. |
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