The ecology of echo

  • Authors:
  • Peter T. Hraber;Terry Jones;Stephanie Forrest

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • Artificial Life
  • Year:
  • 1997

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Abstract

Echo is a generic ecosystem model in which evolving agents are situated in a resource-limited environment. The Echo model is described, and the behavior of Echo is evaluated on two well-studied measures of ecological diversity: relative species abundance and the species-area scaling relation. In simulation experiments, these measures are used to compare the behavior of Echo with that of a neutral model, in which selection on agent genotypes is random. These simulations show that the evolutionary component of Echo makes a significant contribution to its behavior and that Echo shows good qualitative agreement with naturally occurring species abundance distributions and species-area scaling relations.