The paper “Metapopulation models with anti-symmetric Lotka–Volterra systems” (A.S. Anish, B. De Baets and S. Rao) was declared one of two winners of the 2023-2024 Lord Robert May Prize for papers published in the Journal of Biological Dynamics.

The Prize Committee motivated its decision with the following comments:

“This paper treats Lotka-Volterra systems with anti-symmetric structure. It uses a metapopulation approach, with inter-patch migration, so the models are spatial as well as dynamic. It is shown that such migration among the patches may stabilize the whole system. The paper should be of interest to a broad audience because the mathematical analysis combines several theoretical approaches from graph theory, matrix theory, reaction network theory, and differential equations/dynamical systems.”

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