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Adaptive radiation from resource competition in digital organisms.
Paper summary
Uses evolving digital organisms to investigate diversity under resource competition. Mixed limiting resources produce frequency-dependent selection and distinct organism groups; maximum richness can occur at intermediate productivity even in a spatially homogeneous environment.
Relevance to the project
Supports controlled resource-variety and productivity experiments when studying differentiation or specialization. Resource competition may produce diversity without requiring predefined organism roles.
The observed outcome depends on the digital ecology and population constraints.
Source record
- Reference ID
- doi-10-1126-science-1096307
- Archived version
- Author-hosted published Science PDF
- Summary provenance
- reference-library/papers/doi-10-1126-science-1096307/metadata.json · summary
- Review status
- initial orientation summary; not a critical full-paper review
- Reading scope
- Selected abstract/opening and available closing discussion/conclusion passages in the preserved text extract; broader project notes provide context. No reproduction of experiments, exhaustive methods review, or equation/figure audit.