Emergence of log-normal type distributions in avalanche processes in living systems : a network model

Funding We acknowledge financial support from the Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR grant number ANR-18-CE45-0012-01) and from the French Research Minister (MESRI) for SP. PhD funding. Acknowledgments We are very grateful for the participants of the second ISINP meeting at Lake Como for stimulating exchanges about our talk. We are thanful to P. Argoul, A. Guillet, E. Hartè, L. Delmarre for fruitful discussions. SP wishes to thank T. Matteuzzi for his inspiring considerations. We are indebted to Erika Polizzi for her graphical help.Peer reviewedPublisher PD