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Species coexistence in a changing world. [PDF]
Front Plant Sci, 2015 The consequences of global change for the maintenance of species diversity will depend on the sum of each species responses to the environment and on the interactions among them. A wide ecological literature supports that these species-specific responses can arise from factors related to life strategies, evolutionary history and intraspecific variation,
Valladares F +4 more
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Emergent neutrality drives phytoplankton species coexistence [PDF]
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2011 The mechanisms that drive species coexistence and community dynamics have long puzzled ecologists. Here, we explain species coexistence, size structure and diversity patterns in a phytoplankton community using a combination of four fundamental factors: organism traits, size-based constraints, hydrology and species competition.
Carla Kruk, daniel conde, Sylvia Bonilla
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Hybridization and the Coexistence of Species [PDF]
The American Naturalist, 2021 AbstractIt is thought that two species can coexist if they use different resources present in the environment, yet this assumes that species are completely reproductively isolated. We model coexistence outcomes for two sympatric species that are ecologically differentiated but have incomplete reproductive isolation.
Darren Irwin, Dolph Schluter
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Clumped dispersal and species coexistence [PDF]
Ecological Modelling, 2006 Abstract Anisotropic clumped (patchy) dispersal of species is a widespread phenomenon in nature, however, its relevance for structuring communities and maintaining biodiversity is still a matter of debate. We used a spatially explicit simulation model to assess the effects of spatial aggregation through this dispersal strategy compared to isotropic ...
Potthoff, Michael +3 more
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Effective Resource Competition Model for Species Coexistence [PDF]
Physical Review Letters, 2021 Local coexistence of species in large ecosystems is traditionally explained within the broad framework of niche theory. However, its rationale hardly justifies rich biodiversity observed in nearly homogeneous environments. Here we consider a consumer-resource model in which a coarse-graining procedure accounts for a variety of ecological mechanisms and
Deepak Gupta +4 more
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Turbulent dispersal promotes species coexistence [PDF]
Ecology Letters, 2010 Ecology Letters (2010) 13: 360–371 Abstract Several recent advances in coexistence theory emphasize the importance of space and dispersal, but focus on average ...
Berkley, Heather A +3 more
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Positive density dependence acting on mortality can help maintain species-rich communities
eLife, 2020 Conspecific negative density dependence is ubiquitous and has long been recognized as an important factor favoring the coexistence of competing species at local scale.
Thomas G Aubier
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Species competition: coexistence, exclusion and clustering [PDF]
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 2009 We present properties of Lotka–Volterra equations describing ecological competition among a large number of interacting species. First we extend previous stability conditions to the case of a non-homogeneous niche space, i.e. that of a carrying capacity depending on the species trait.
Hernandez-Garcia, E. +3 more
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Modelling ecological communities when composition is manipulated experimentally
Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 2023 In an experimental setting, the composition of ecological communities can be manipulated directly. Starting from a pool of n species, it is possible to co‐culture species in different combinations, ranging from monocultures, to pairs, and all the way up ...
Abigail Skwara +3 more
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Do epigeal termite mounds increase the diversity of plant habitats in a tropical rain forest in peninsular Malaysia? [PDF]
, 2011 The extent to which environmental heterogeneity can account for tree species coexistence in diverse ecosystems, such as tropical rainforests, is hotly debated, although the importance of spatial variability in contributing to species co-existence is well
Beaudrot, Lydia +4 more
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