Samir Suweis

Padova

My work focuses on research at the interface of ecology, hydrology and complex systems under an theoretical framework provided by statistical mechanics. It addresses a wide range of related topics, including ecosystem organizations, ecological networks, stochastic modelling of ecosystems dynamics and hydrological processes, sustainability and ecosystems services. In particular we look for any ubiquitous patterns or universal scaling behavior in real systems, that are signals of emergent order despite the variety and complexity of the systems involved. I address the above and related topics from a comprehensive framework that include data mining, theoretical modeling (both computational and analytical) and statistical analysis.

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Biophysical controls on cluster dynamics and architectural differentiation of microbial biofilms in contrasting flow environments DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.12205
Disentangling the effect of hybrid interactions and of the constant effort hypothesis on ecological community stability DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2013.00822.x
Emergence of structural and dynamical properties of ecological mutualistic networks DOI: 10.1038/nature12438
Growth or reproduction: Emergence of an evolutionary optimal strategy DOI: 10.1088/1742-5468/2013/10/P10020
Water-controlled wealth of nations DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1222452110
An exactly solvable coarse-grained model for species diversity DOI: 10.1088/1742-5468/2012/07/P07017
Modeling past and future structure of the global virtual water trade network DOI: 10.1029/2012GL053871
On species persistence-time distributions DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2012.02.022
Prescription-induced jump distributions in multiplicative Poisson processes DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.83.061119
Spatial effects on species persistence and implications for biodiversity DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1017274108
Stochastic modeling of salt accumulation in the root zone due to capillary flux from brackish groundwater DOI: 10.1029/2010WR009790
Structure and controls of the global virtual water trade network DOI: 10.1029/2011GL046837
Water for food: The global virtual water trade network DOI: 10.1029/2010WR010307
An indirect assessment on the impact of connectivity of conductivity classes upon longitudinal asymptotic macrodispersivity DOI: 10.1029/2009WR008590
Impact of stochastic fluctuations in storage-discharge relations on streamflow distributions DOI: 10.1029/2009WR008038

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