El grupo de Física Estadística de los Sistemas Complejos les invita al siguiente seminario: 

- Ponente: Paula Villa. Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology. Biological Complexity Unit.

- Título: Ocean currents promote rare species diversity in protists.

- Abstract:  Oceans host communities of plankton composed of a huge number of rare species that, as estimated in metagenomic studies, decay as a steep power law of their abundance. We propose that the way chaotic advection of oceanic currents limit protists dispersal is a key  factor of such biodiversity pattern. We introduce a spatially explicit coalescence model able to reconstruct species ancestry and diversity in the presence of currents. Our model predicts a steep power law decay of the species abundance distribution and a steep increase of the number of observed species with sample size. Indeed, we find a significant correlation of the local finite-size Lyapunov exponents of our chaotic currents and the power law exponents of the species abundance distribution. Metagenomic studies of planktonic protist communities show excellent agreement with our results. 

- Fecha y hora: Jueves 8 de Octubre a las 12 horas. 

- Lugar: Laboratorio de Física Computacional, Planta baja del edificio de Física, Facultad de Ciencias. 

- Referencia: https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/29/eaaz9037

El seminario será presencial, hasta completar el aforo reducido del aula. También se podrá seguir online desde el enlace: https://laplace.ugr.es/b/seminarios-materia

Atentamente,