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Spatial mechanisms promoting plant coexistence. the role of dispersal and competition [PDF]
, 2009 One of the great challenges in ecology is to explain how large numbers of plant species are able to coexist in natural communities. The role of spatial structure for maintaining plant coexistence has so far mainly been explored by theory.
Vogt, Deborah Ruth
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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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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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Fire, 2020 Understanding the mechanisms underlying tree spatial arrangements may provide significant insights into the processes in the maintenance of species coexistence.
Jelveh Tamjidi, James A. Lutz
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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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Regional Coexistence of Species and Competition between Rare Species [PDF]
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 1971 A model is developed for the coexistence and exclusion of species over a region of similar habitable patches. Since the balance of local extinction and colonization would leave some patches unoccupied even without competitors, species may coexist even when all the patches are the same. Regional competition coefficients are found when species affect the
Levins, R., Culver, D.
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The macroecological dynamics of species coexistence in birds [PDF]
Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2018 Ecological communities are assembled from the overlapping of species in geographic space, but the mechanisms facilitating or limiting such overlaps are difficult to resolve. Here, we combine phylogenetic, morphological and environmental data to model how multiple processes regulate the origin and maintenance of geographic range overlap across 1,115 ...
Alex L. Pigot +3 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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European Journal of Entomology, 2012 Insects feeding on the foliage of oak were studied on a mountain where species of Mediterranean deciduous and evergreen oak coexist. There were 58 insect species (54 Lepidoptera, 1 Coleopteran and 3 Hymenoptera) belonging to twenty families in the ...
Maria KALAPANIDA, Panos V. PETRAKIS
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