Spatial population genetics with fluid flow

R Benzi, DR Nelson, S Shankar… - Reports on Progress in …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
The growth and evolution of microbial populations is often subjected to advection by fluid
flows in spatially extended environments, with immediate consequences for questions of …

Oceanic frontal divergence alters phytoplankton competition and distribution

A Plummer, M Freilich, R Benzi, CJ Choi… - Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Ecological interactions among phytoplankton occur in a moving fluid environment. Oceanic
flows can modulate the competition and coexistence between phytoplankton populations …

Strong noise limit for population dynamics in incompressible advection

G Guccione, R Benzi, F Toschi - Physical Review E, 2021 - APS
Genetic diversity is at the basis of the evolution process of populations and it is responsible
for the populations' degree of fitness to a particular ecosystem. In marine environments …

[PDF][PDF] Antagonistic Population Genetics in Turbulent Oceanic Flow

MD Dorrestijn - 2023 - pure.tue.nl
The effect of a turbulent velocity field on the growth and interactions of two populations of
micro-organisms in an oceanic layer is investigated. The growth is simulated in a 2D domain …