When are bacteria really gazelles? Comparing patchy ecologies with dimensionless numbers
S. S. Urmy, A. N. Cramer, T. L. Rogers, J. Sullivan-Stack, M. L. Schmidt, S. D. Stewart, C. C. Symons
This paper calculates Grunbaum's dimensionless numbers for 33 consumer-resource interactions across scales, finding that none are fully described by mean-field models but 79% can be partially simplified.
bioRxiv · Oct 15, 2021Ecology