The resistance of swarm ecosystem under environmental variation

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Title:	The resistance of swarm ecosystem under environmental variation
Creators Name:	Lowell, J., Harrington, K. and Pollack, J.
Abstract:	Evolving swarms can be used both to solve real-world problems and to study biological and ecological phenomena. We simulated an evolving swarm of birds under three different types of climate-change-related environmental variation - a temperate environment becoming tropical, a temperate enviroment becoming a desert, and a tropical environment becoming a desert. We found that desertification increased expirations within the swarm and decreased population stability. The direction of the variation - tropicalification or desertification - had a greater impact on the dynamics of the swarm than the degree of variation when it came to these outcomes. The environmental variation also affected the genetics of the birds, with decreased food availability leading to collision avoidance genes being downplayed, and searching behavior for food being changed. High-intensity environmental variation led to less genetic stability post-change than lower-intensity environmental variation.
Source:	Artificial Life Conference Proceedings
Title of Book:	Artificial Life 14: Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems
ISBN:	978-0-262-32621-6
Publisher:	International Society for Artificial Life
Page Range:	827-834
Date:	July 2014
Official Publication:	https://doi.org/10.7551/978-0-262-32621-6-ch135
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