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Network Biology, 2012, 2(2): 69-78
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Modeling community succession and assembly: A novel method for network evolution

WenJun Zhang
School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China; International Academy of Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Hong Kong

Received 16 December 2011;Accepted 12 February 2012;Published online 1 June 2012
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Abstract
The process of modeling community succession and assembly is in some sense a method for network evolution, as done by Barabasi and Albert (1999). It is also one of the methods to create a sample network from the statistic network I proposed earlier. I think that the mechanism of network evolution supposed by Barabasi and Albert is most likely applicable to the natural phenomena with emergency property. For natural phenomena without emergency property, the present study indicated that a scale-free network may be produced through a new mechanism, i.e., whether the connection of a taxon x occurs, dependent on the type and property of taxon y (in particular, the degree of its direct correlation with x) to be connected but not necessarily the existing number of connections of taxon y, as proposed in present study.

Keywords community succession;assembly;network evolution;mechanism;modeling.



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