Energy flow drives the complex systems to evolve.The allometric scaling as the universalenergy flow pattern has been found in different scales of ecological systems.It reflects the generalpower law relationship betwee...Energy flow drives the complex systems to evolve.The allometric scaling as the universalenergy flow pattern has been found in different scales of ecological systems.It reflects the generalpower law relationship between flow and store.The underlying mechanisms of energy flow patterns areexplained as the branching transportation networks which can be regarded as the result of systematicoptimization of a biological target under constraints.Energy flows in the ecological system may bemodelled by the food web model and population dynamics on the network.This paper reviews thelatest progress on the energy flow patterns,explanatory models for the allometric scaling and modellingapproach of flow and network evolution dynamics in ecology.Furthermore,the possibility of generalizingthese flow patterns,modelling approaches to other complex systems is discussed.展开更多
基金supported by Guozhi Xu Post Doctoral Research Foundationthe National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No. 60574068.
文摘Energy flow drives the complex systems to evolve.The allometric scaling as the universalenergy flow pattern has been found in different scales of ecological systems.It reflects the generalpower law relationship between flow and store.The underlying mechanisms of energy flow patterns areexplained as the branching transportation networks which can be regarded as the result of systematicoptimization of a biological target under constraints.Energy flows in the ecological system may bemodelled by the food web model and population dynamics on the network.This paper reviews thelatest progress on the energy flow patterns,explanatory models for the allometric scaling and modellingapproach of flow and network evolution dynamics in ecology.Furthermore,the possibility of generalizingthese flow patterns,modelling approaches to other complex systems is discussed.
