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arxiv: 1405.5514 · v1 · pith:66Z7P6RNnew · submitted 2014-05-20 · 🧬 q-bio.PE · cond-mat.stat-mech· physics.bio-ph

Geometry for a `penguin-albatross' rookery

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We introduce a simple ecological model describing the spatial organization of two interacting populations whose individuals are indifferent to conspecifics and avoid the proximity to heterospecifics. At small population densities $\Phi$ a non-trivial structure is observed where clusters of individuals arrange into a rhomboidal bipartite network with an average degree of four. For $\Phi\rightarrow0$ the length scale, order parameter and susceptibility of the network exhibit power-law divergences compatible with hyper-scaling, suggesting the existence of a zero density - non-trivial - critical point. At larger densities a critical threshold $\Phi_{c}$ is identified above which the evolution toward a partially ordered configuration is prevented and the system becomes jammed in a fully mixed state.

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