High response diversity and conspecific density‐dependence, not species interactions, drive dynamics of coral reef fish communities
Alfonso Ruiz‐Moreno,
Michael J. Emslie,
Sean R. Connolly
Abstract:Species‐to‐species and species‐to‐environment interactions are key drivers of community dynamics. Disentangling these drivers in species‐rich assemblages is challenging due to the high number of potentially interacting species (the ‘curse of dimensionality’). We develop a process‐based model that quantifies how intraspecific and interspecific interactions, and species’ covarying responses to environmental fluctuations, jointly drive community dynamics. We fit the model to reef fish abundance time series from 4… Show more
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