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Environmental dimensionality determines species coexistence.
Journal of theoretical biology, 2020According to the competitive-exclusion principle, the number n of regulating variables describing a given community dynamics is an upper bound on the number of species (or types or morphs) that can coexist at equilibrium. On occasion, it is possible to reformulate a model with a lower number of regulating variables than appeared in the initial ...
Parvinen, K., Metz, H., Dieckmann, U.
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The spatial scales of species coexistence
Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2017Understanding how species diversity is maintained is a foundational problem in ecology and an essential requirement for the discipline to be effective as an applied science. Ecologists' understanding of this problem has rapidly matured, but this has exposed profound uncertainty about the spatial scales required to maintain species diversity.
Simon P. Hart +2 more
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2020
In most places on Earth, many similar species are found coexisting. This key observation is often explained in terms of ecological differences in how species interact with their shared environment, that is, in terms of their niche differences. Niche differences can to lead to stable coexistence in contrast to the ecological drift predicted by the ...
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In most places on Earth, many similar species are found coexisting. This key observation is often explained in terms of ecological differences in how species interact with their shared environment, that is, in terms of their niche differences. Niche differences can to lead to stable coexistence in contrast to the ecological drift predicted by the ...
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Coexistence in metacommunities: A tree-species model
Mathematical Biosciences, 2006Simple patch-occupancy models of competitive metacommunities have shown that coexistence is possible as long as there is a competition-colonization tradeoff such as that of superior competitors and dispersers. In this paper, we present a model of competition between three species in a dynamic landscape, where patches are being created and destroyed at ...
Mena Lorca, Jaime +2 more
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Species coexistence by front pinning
Ecological Complexity, 2014The spatial competition between two plant species that make different compromises in capturing soil water and sunlight is studied using a mathematical model. A precipitation range along the rainfall gradient is identified where two alternative stable states coexist. The first state describes a uniform distribution of a plant species that specializes in
Paris Kyriazopoulos +2 more
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Vegetation structure and species coexistence
Folia Geobotanica et Phytotaxonomica, 1994“Vegetation Structure and Species Co-existence” was the topic of a symposium organized in 1992, in Tartu, Estonia. The symposium was dedicated to the memory of Professor Teodor Lippmaa (1892–1943), who made important contributions, especially to the concept of synusia in community ecology.
Kalevi Kull, Martin Zobel
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Intraspecific aggregation and species coexistence
Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2002Our recent article in TREE [1xUniting pattern and process in plant ecology. Murrell, D.J. et al. Trends Ecol. Evol. 2001; 16: 529–530Abstract | Full Text | Full Text PDF | Scopus (69)See all References[1] was motivated by the lack of empirical information on the effect of spatial structure on competition.
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Species coexistence and niche theory
2019Abstract Ecologists have long puzzled over the question of how multiple species may coexist in a community in the face of strong interspecific competition. This chapter explores the answers that modern coexistence theory provides to this question.
Gary G. Mittelbach, Brian J. McGill
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Species coexistence in temperate grasslands
Folia Geobotanica et Phytotaxonomica, 1995First, plant biomass may be determined in the same plot every year without imposing an extra disturbing factor, since the biomass removal (mowing, grazing) is a regular part of the grasslands ecological regime. Moreover, this biomass, eventually sorted into components, can be quantified very easily.
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