Enforced symmetry: the necessity of symmetric waxing and waning

A fundamental question in ecology is how the success of a taxon changes through time and what drives this change. This question is commonly approached using trajectories averaged over a group of taxa. Using results from probability theory, we show analytically and using examples that averaged trajec...

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Main Authors: Niklas Hohmann, Emilia Jarochowska
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: PeerJ Inc. 2019-11-01
Series:PeerJ
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Online Access:https://peerj.com/articles/8011.pdf