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Spatial complementarity and the coexistence of species. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 Coexistence of apparently similar species remains an enduring paradox in ecology. Spatial structure has been predicted to enable coexistence even when population-level models predict competitive exclusion if it causes each species to limit its own ...
Jorge Velázquez +2 more
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Energetic Constraints on Species Coexistence in Birds. [PDF]
PLoS Biology, 2016 The association between species richness and ecosystem energy availability is one of the major geographic trends in biodiversity. It is often explained in terms of energetic constraints, such that coexistence among competing species is limited in low ...
Alexander L Pigot +2 more
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Heterogeneity of the horizontal environment drives community assemblages and species coexistence of prokaryotic communities in cold seep sediments [PDF]
Frontiers in MicrobiologyIntroductionMicroorganisms play important roles in methane oxidation and carbon turnover of cold seep ecosystem. Although the microbial diversity of cold seep sediments has been reported, the community assembly processes, species coexistence patterns ...
Qixuan Wu +14 more
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Microbial Species Coexistence Depends on the Host Environment [PDF]
mBio, 2020 Organisms and their resident microbial communities form a complex and mostly stable ecosystem. It is known that the specific composition and abundance of certain bacterial species affect host health and fitness, but the processes that lead to these ...
Peter Deines +2 more
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Lumpy species coexistence arises robustly in fluctuating resource environments. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2018 The effect of life-history traits on resource competition outcomes is well understood in the context of a constant resource supply. However, almost all natural systems are subject to fluctuations of resources driven by cyclical processes such as ...
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When Do Trait‐Based Higher Order Interactions and Individual Variation Promote Robust Species Coexistence? [PDF]
Ecology and EvolutionModels on the effects of individual variation often focus on pairwise interactions, but communities could harbor both pairwise and higher order interactions (HOIs). Theoretical studies on HOIs, where a third species modulates pairwise species competition,
Gaurav Baruah +2 more
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Investigating Co-occurrence among Look-alike Species: The Case of Three Bears in Northeast India
Diversity, 2022 At the most basic level, the assessment of a species’ status involves knowing where it occurs. Determining the presence of rare species is difficult, and can be further confounded by the presence of a more common look-alike species.
David L. Garshelis +3 more
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Plants, 2021 The aim of the present study was to analyze the growth and physiological performance of two coexisting species, Trifolium fragiferum, and Trifolium repens, under the effect of NaCl and rhizobial symbiosis. Seeds of T. fragiferum and T.
Kārlis Dūmiņš +4 more
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Compatible Mycorrhizal Types Contribute to a Better Design for Mixed Eucalyptus Plantations
Frontiers in Plant Science, 2021 Mixed-species forest plantation is a sound option to facilitate ecological restoration, plant diversity and ecosystem functions. Compatible species combinations are conducive to reconstruct plant communities that can persist at a low cost without further
Fangcuo Qin, Shixiao Yu
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Ecology and Evolution, 2023 Lizard diets are highly diverse and have contributed to the diversification, biogeographical distributions, and evolution of novel traits across this global radiation.
Erin P. Westeen +5 more
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