Extinctions in a spatial model of fossil communities subject to correlated environmental disturbance

• Published in: Ecological complexity Vol. 6; no. 1; pp. 70 - 75
• Main Authors: De Blasio, Fabio Vittorio, De Blasio, Birgitte Freiesleben
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier B.V 01.03.2009
• Subjects: Coloured noise; Correlation; Extinction; Modelling; Coloured noise; Correlation; Modelling; Extinction

We present a spatial model to study the behaviour of species communities subjected to environmental stress in the form of coloured noise, focusing on long-time changes of time scales larger than 1 ka. The sensitivity to environmental change is introduced by assigning each species with an optimal val...