Pattern formations driven by cyclic interactions: A brief review of recent developments

A Szolnoki, BF De Oliveira, D Bazeia - Europhysics Letters, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Lotka's seminal work (Lotka AJ, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 6 (1920) 410)" on certain
rhythmic relations" is already one hundred years old, but the research activity about pattern …

Predominance of the weakest species in Lotka-Volterra and May-Leonard formulations of the rock-paper-scissors model

PP Avelino, BF de Oliveira, RS Trintin - Physical Review E, 2019 - APS
We revisit the problem of the predominance of the “weakest” species in the context of Lotka-
Volterra and May-Leonard formulations of a spatial stochastic rock-paper-scissors model in …

Response of a three-species cyclic ecosystem to a short-lived elevation of death rate

S Chatterjee, R De, C Hens, SK Dana, T Kapitaniak… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
A balanced ecosystem with coexisting constituent species is often perturbed by different
natural events that persist only for a finite duration of time. What becomes important is …

Oppressed species can form a winning pair in a multi-species ecosystem

A Szolnoki, M Perc - Applied Mathematics and Computation, 2023 - Elsevier
The self-protection of alliances against external invaders is a key concept behind the
maintenance of biodiversity in the face of natural selection. But since these alliances, which …

Reproduction-mobility trade-off in rock-paper-scissors models in changing environmental conditions

J Menezes, E Rangel - Physica Scripta, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
We investigate a tritrophic system in which organisms' energy depletion, resulting from failed
selection attempts, leads to a partial loss of capacity to win the cyclic spatial game. The …

Performance of weak species in the simplest generalization of the rock-paper-scissors model to four species

PP Avelino, BF De Oliveira, RS Trintin - Physical Review E, 2020 - APS
We investigate the problem of the predominance and survival of “weak” species in the
context of the simplest generalization of the spatial stochastic rock-paper-scissors model to …

Spatiotemporal patterns in active four-state Potts models

H Noguchi - Scientific Reports, 2025 - nature.com
Many types of spatiotemporal patterns have been observed under nonequilibrium
conditions. Cycling through four or more states can provide specific dynamics, such as the …

Breaking unidirectional invasions jeopardizes biodiversity in spatial May-Leonard systems

D Bazeia, BF de Oliveira, JVO Silva… - Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, 2020 - Elsevier
Non-transitive dominance and the resulting cyclic loop of three or more competing species
provide a fundamental mechanism to explain biodiversity in biological and ecological …

Mortality makes coexistence vulnerable in evolutionary game of rock-paper-scissors

S Bhattacharyya, P Sinha, R De, C Hens - Physical Review E, 2020 - APS
Multiple species in the ecosystem are believed to compete cyclically for maintaining balance
in nature. The evolutionary dynamics of cyclic interaction crucially depends on different …

Influence of the neighborhood on cyclic models of biodiversity

D Bazeia, M Bongestab, BF de Oliveira - Physica A: Statistical Mechanics …, 2022 - Elsevier
This work deals with the influence of the neighborhood in simple rock–paper–scissors
models of biodiversity. We consider the case of three distinct species which evolve under the …