Resonant Amplification of Demographic Noise in Stochastic Common-Pool Resource Dynamics
Abstract
Common-pool resources are vulnerable to overexploitation, yet many social-ecological systems exhibit persistent oscillations. We introduce a stochastic eco-evolutionary model in which harvesting strategies and resource availability shape one another. In the infinite population limit the system approaches a stable state through damped oscillations. Demographic noise continually excites these modes, generating instead robust macroscopic quasi-cycles, whose frequencies depend on the noise ratio, the relative timescale between strategy and resource, and the harvesting pressure. The model reproduces the distinct frequency peaks, observed in empirical global fish-landings data for high- and low-income countries, showing that persistent environmental fluctuations can emerge naturally from demographic noise.
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BibTeX
@misc{caruso2026resonant,
title = {{Resonant Amplification of Demographic Noise in Stochastic Common-Pool Resource Dynamics}},
author = {Susanna C. Caruso and Fabio Menegazzo and Vito Latora and Samir Suweis},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2610.41830},
eprint = {2610.41830},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.41830},
note = {CC BY 4.0},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Resonant Amplification of Demographic Noise in Stochastic Common-Pool Resource Dynamics
AU - Susanna C. Caruso
AU - Fabio Menegazzo
AU - Vito Latora
AU - Samir Suweis
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/10/30
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2610.41830
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.41830
AB - Common-pool resources are vulnerable to overexploitation, yet many social-ecological systems exhibit persistent oscillations. We introduce a stochastic eco-evolutionary model in which harvesting strategies and resource availability shape one another. In the infinite population limit the system approaches a stable state through damped oscillations. Demographic noise continually excites these modes, generating instead robust macroscopic quasi-cycles, whose frequencies depend on the noise ratio, the relative timescale between strategy and resource, and the harvesting pressure. The model reproduces the distinct frequency peaks, observed in empirical global fish-landings data for high- and low-income countries, showing that persistent environmental fluctuations can emerge naturally from demographic noise.
ER -