The distribution of distances to the edge of species coexistence
Mario Desallais,
Michel Loreau,
Jean-François Arnoldi
Abstract:Here we examine how the way biotic interactions determine the robustness of species coexistence in the face of environmental perturbations. For Lotka-Volterra community models, given a set of biotic interactions, recent approaches have characterized, and applied, the probability of finding at set of species intrinsic features (e.g. growth rates) that will allow coexistence. Here we ask instead: if species do coexist, given their interactions, how fragile this coexistence should be? This change of framing allow… Show more
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