PUBLICATIONS



2014



S. Azaele, A. Maritan, S.J. Cornell, S. Suweis, J.R. Banavar, D. Gabriel, W.E. Kunin b
Towards a unified descriptive theory for spatial ecology: predicting biodiversity patterns across spatial scales., Methods in Ecology and Evolution Early View (2014)


Suweis, Samir & D'Odorico, Paolo b
Early warning signs in social-ecological networks, PLOS ONE 9(7), e101851. (2014)


Jorge Hidalgo, Jacopo Grilli, Samir Suweis, Miguel A. Muñoz, Jayanth R. Banavar & Amos Maritanb
Information-based fitness and the emergence of criticality in living systems, PNAS 111(28), 10095–10100 (2014)
arXiv   


Samir Suweis, Jacopo Grilli & Amos Maritan
Disentangling the effect of hybrid interactions and of the constant effort hypothesis on ecological community stability, Oikos 123(5), 525-532 (2014)
arXiv   


Roderick C. Dewar & Amos Maritan
A Theoretical Basis for Maximum Entropy Production, Beyond the Second Law, Understanding Complex Systems 2014, 49-71 (2014)


2013



Jacopo Grilli, Samir Suweis & Amos Maritan
Growth or reproduction: emergence of an evolutionary optimal strategy, Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment 10, P10020 (2013)
arXiv   


Samir Suweis, Filippo Simini, Jayanth R. Banavar & Amos Maritan
Emergence of structural and dynamical properties of ecological mutualistic networks, Nature 500, 449-452 (2013)
arXiv   


Claudio Borile, Amos Maritan & Miguel A. Muñoz
The effect of quenched disorder in neutral theories, Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment 4, P04032 (2013)
arXiv   


Filippo Simini, Amos Maritan & Nèdan Zoltàn
Human Mobility in a Continuum Approach, Plos One 8(3), e60069 (2013)
PMID   


Andrea Giometto, Florian Altermatt, Francesco Carrara, Amos Maritan & Andrea Rinaldo
Scaling body size fluctuations, PNAS 110(12), 4646-4650 (2013)
PMID   


Samir Suweis, Andrea Rinaldo, Amos Maritan & Paolo D'Odorico
Water-controlled wealth of nations, PNAS 110(11), 4230-4233 (2013)
PMID    arXiv   


Tommaso Anfodillo, Marco Carrer, Filippo Simini, Ionel Popa, Jayanth R. Banavar & Amos Maritan
An allometry-based approach for understanding forest structure, predicting tree-size distribution and assessing the degree of disturbance, Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 280(1751), 20122375 (2013)
PMID    arXiv   


2012



Jacopo Grilli, Sandro Azaele, Jayanth R Banavar & Amos Maritan
Absence of Detailed Balance in Ecology, Europhysics Letters 100, 38002 (2012)
arXiv   


Daniel Remondini, Enrico Giampieri, Armando Bazzani, Gastone Castellani & Amos Maritan
Analysis of noise-induced bimodality in a Michaelis–Menten single-step enzymatic cycle, Physica A 392(2), 336–342 (2012)
arXiv


Jacopo Grilli, Sandro Azaele, Jayanth R Banavar & Amos Maritan
Spatial aggregation and the species–area relationship across scales, Journal of Theoretical Biology 313, 87–97 (2012)
PMID    arXiv    mendeley


Samir Suweis, Andrea Rinaldo & Amos Maritan
An exactly solvable coarse-grained model for species diversity, Journal of Statistical Mechanics 2010(07), P07017 (2012)
arXiv    mendeley


Claudio Borile, Miguel A. Muñoz, Sandro Azaele, Jayanth R. Banavar & Amos Maritan
Spontaneously Broken Neutral Symmetry in an Ecological System, Physical Review Letters 109, 038102 (2012)
PMID    arXiv    mendeley


Samir Suweis, Enrico Bertuzzo, Lorenzo Mari, Ignacio Rodrìguez-Iturbe, Amos Maritan & Andrea Rinaldo
On species persistence-time distributions, Journal of Theoretical Biology 303, 15-24 (2012)
PMID    arXiv    mendeley


Trinh X. Hoang, Jayanth R. Banavar & Amos Maritan
Shapes of hydrophobic thick membranes, Europhysics Letters 98(5), 56006 (2012)
arXiv


Filippo Simini, Marta C. González, Amos Maritan & Albert-László Barabási
A universal model for mobility and migration patterns, Nature 484, 96–100 (2012)
PMID    arXiv    mendeley


Alex Proekt, Jayanth R Banavar, Amos Maritan & Donald W Pfaff
Scale invariance in the dynamics of spontaneous behavior, PNAS 109(26), 10564-10569 (2012)
PMID    mendeley


Jayanth R. Banavar, Trinh X. Hoang, Flavio Seno, Antonio Trovato & Amos Maritan
Protein Sequence and Structure: Is One More Fundamental than the Other?, Journal of Statistical Physics 148(4), 636-645 (2012)
arXiv



2011



Samir Suweis, Amilcare Porporato, Andrea Rinaldo & Amos Maritan
Prescription-induced jump distributions in multiplicative Poisson processes, Physical Review E 83(6), 061119 (2011)
PMID    arXiv    mendeley


Enrico Bertuzzo, Samir Suweis, Lorenzo Mari, Amos Maritan, Ignacìo Rodriguez-Iturbe & Andrea Rinaldo
Spatial effects on species persistence and implications for biodiversity, PNAS 108(11), 4346-4351 (2011)
PMID    arXiv    mendeley


Francesca Di Patti, Sandro Azaele, Jayanth R Banavar & Amos Maritan
System size expansion for systems with an absorbing state, Physical Review E 83(1), 010102 (2011)
PMID    arXiv    mendeley



Selection of previous publications



Igor Volkov, Jayanth R Banavar, Stephen P Hubbell & Amos Maritan
Patterns of relative species abundance in rainforests and coral reefs, Nature 450, 45-49 (2007)
PMID    mendeley


Sandro Azaele, Simone Pigolotti, Jayanth R Banavar & Amos Maritan
Dynamical evolution of ecosystems, Nature 444, 926-928 (2006)
PMID    mendeley


Igor Volkov, Jayanth R Banavar, Fangliang He, Stephen P Hubbell & Amos Maritan
Density dependence explains tree species abundance and diversity in tropical forests, Nature 438, 658-661 (2005)
PMID    mendeley


Igor Volkov, Jayanth R. Banavar, Stephen P. Hubbell & Amos Maritan
Neutral Theory and Relative Species Abundance in Ecology, Nature 424(6952), 1035-1037 (2003)
PMID    arXiv    mendeley


Alexei Vazquez, Alessandro Flammini, Amos Maritan & Alessandro Vespignani
Global protein function prediction from protein-protein interaction networks, Nature Biotechnology 21(6), 697-700 (2003)
PMID    arXiv    mendeley


Neal S. Holter, Amos Maritan, Marek Cieplak, Nina V. Fedoroff & Jayanth R. Banavar
Dynamic modeling of gene expression data, PNAS 98(4), 1693-1698 (2001)
PMID    mendeley


Neal S. Holter, Madhusmita Mitra, Amos Maritan, Marek Cieplak, Jayanth R. Banavar & Nina V. Fedoroff
Fundamental patterns underlying gene expression profiles: simplicity from complexity, PNAS 97(15), 8409-8414 (2000)
PMID    mendeley


Amos Maritan, Cristian Micheletti, Antonio Trovato & Jayanth R Banavar
Fundamental patterns underlying gene expression profiles: simplicity from complexity, Nature 406(6793), 287-290 (2000)
PMID    arXiv    mendeley


Jayanth R Banavar, Amos Maritan, & Andrea Rinaldo
Size and form in efficient transportation networks, Nature 399(6732), 130-132 (1999)
PMID    mendeley


Amos Maritan & Jayanth R Banavar
Chaos, noise, and synchronization, Physical Review Letters 72, 1451-1454 (1994)
PMID    mendeley