Very interesting. I'm hardly a bio/ecologist but I think that I have some links you may find pertinent: * The Lindy effect [0] is a theory of the life expectan

Very interesting. I'm hardly a bio/ecologist but I think that I have some links you may find pertinent: * The Lindy effect [0] is a theory of the life expectancy of non-perishable things that posits for a certain class of nonperishables, like a technology or an idea, every additional day may imply a longer (remaining) life expectancy:[1] the mortality rate decreases with time. This contrasts with living creatures and mechanical things, which instead follow a bathtub curve, where every additional day in its life translates into a shorter additional life expectancy (though longer overall life expectancy, due to surviving this far): after childhood, the mortality rate increases with time. * Correlations, Risk and Crisis: From Physiology to Finance [1] - "in crisis, typically, even before obvious symptoms of crisis appear, correlation increases, and, at the same time, variance (and volatility) increases too." * Liebig's Law [2] - growth is constrained by the minimum resource, not the total of resources * Metabolic theory of ecology [3] - the metabolic rate of an organism governs observed ecological patterns [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect [1] http://arxiv.org/abs/0905.0129 http://arxiv.org/abs/0905.0129 [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liebig%27s_law_of_the_minimum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liebig%27s_law_of_the_minimum [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metabolic_theory_of_ecology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metabolic_theory_of_ecology