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Increased competition may promote species coexistence [PDF]
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2002 It is a mainstay of community ecology that local exclusion of species will result if competitive pressures become too large. The pattern of exclusion may be complicated, but the qualitative orthodoxy has changed little since the pioneering work of Lotka, Volterra, and Gause—no two species can occupy the same niche. Stated in a more precise
J, Vandermeer +5 more
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Life-cycle switching and coexistence of species with no niche differentiation. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2011 The increasing evidence of coexistence of cryptic species with no recognized niche differentiation has called attention to mechanisms reducing competition that are not based on niche-differentiation.
Javier Montero-Pau, Manuel Serra
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How self-regulation, the storage effect and their interaction contribute to coexistence in stochastic and seasonal environments [PDF]
, 2019 Explaining coexistence in species-rich communities of primary producers remains a challenge for ecologists because of their likely competition for shared resources.
Barraquand, Frederic, Picoche, Coralie
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Rapid evolution promotes fluctuation-dependent species coexistence [PDF]
Ecology Letters, 2020 AbstractRecent studies have demonstrated that rapid contemporary evolution can play a significant role in regulating population dynamics on ecological timescales. Here we identify a previously unrecognized mode by which rapid evolution can promote species coexistence via temporal fluctuations and a trade-off between competitive ability and the speed of
Masato Yamamichi, Andrew D. Letten
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Microbiomes Reduce Their Host’s Sensitivity to Interspecific Interactions
mBio, 2020 Bacteria associated with eukaryotic hosts can affect host fitness and trophic interactions between eukaryotes, but the extent to which bacteria influence the eukaryotic species interactions within trophic levels that modulate biodiversity and species ...
Sara L. Jackrel +3 more
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Overyielding and stable species coexistence [PDF]
New Phytologist, 2006 The concept of overyielding originated in plant sciences in the 1950s and 1960s and was widely used in the following decades to assess whether mixtures of plants performed better than expected when compared with monocultures. Overyielding has re-emerged in the last few years as an important method in the analysis of biodiversity experiments (Hector ...
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Frontiers in Plant Science, 2023 Habitat fragmentation and climate change are the two main threats to global biodiversity. Understanding their combined impact on plant community regeneration is vital for predicting future forest structure and conserving biodiversity.
Yuping Zhong +8 more
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Royal Society Open Science, 2022 Amidst global environmental changes, predicting species' responses to future environments is a critical challenge for preserving biodiversity and associated human benefits. We explored the original idea that coral competitive performances, the ability of
Mohsen Kayal, Mehdi Adjeroud
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Predicting coexistence of plants subject to a tolerance-competition trade-off [PDF]
, 2013 Ecological trade-offs between species are often invoked to explain species coexistence in ecological communities. However, few mathematical models have been proposed for which coexistence conditions can be characterized explicitly in terms of a trade-off.
Etienne, Rampal S. +2 more
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Interference competition and species coexistence [PDF]
Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences, 2002 Interference competition is ubiquitous in nature. Yet its effects on resource exploitation remain largely unexplored for species that compete for dynamic resources. Here, I present a model of exploitative and interference competition with explicit resource dynamics. The model incorporates both biotic and abiotic resources.
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