“…Specifically, the local nature of interactions that takes place in reality (where systems are far from well mixed) pervade the emergence of new types of phenomena, from spatial structures to complex dynamics (Bascompte and Sole´, 1998). This is the case at all scales, from complex ecosystems (Bascompte and Sole´, 1995;Sole´and Bascompte, 2006) to molecular ecology (Breyer et al, 1998;Fu¨chslin and McCaskill, 2001;McCaskill, 1997). Space plays a key role in hypercycle dynamics, and spatial models of hypercyclic organization have been explored (Boerlijst, 2000;Chaco´n and Moran, 1993;Cronhjort, 1995;Cronhjort and Blomberg, 1994;Fontanari and Ferreira, 2002;Szaboé t al., 2002).…”