Figure 5

Dependence of the global maximum of the vegetation population \(u_{max}\) (red), the prey population \(v_{max}\) (green) and the predator population \(w_{max}\) (blue), occurring in the patches in an interval of time \(T=50\), on coupling strength, for \(N=100\). Here we depict the scaled values of the maximum, where \(u_{max}\), \(v_{max}\) and \(w_{max}\) are divided by their values in the uncoupled (i.e. \(C=0\)) case. Note that larger systems yield larger \(u_{max}\), \(v_{max}\) and \(w_{max}\), with the values saturating to a characteristic value in the limit of large system size.