Reconciling cooperation, biodiversity and stability in complex ecological communities

Abstract Empirical evidences show that ecosystems with high biodiversity can persist in time even in the presence of few types of resources and are more stable than low biodiverse communities. This evidence is contrasted by the conventional mathematical modeling, which predicts that the presence of...

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Main Authors: Chengyi Tu, Samir Suweis, Jacopo Grilli, Marco Formentin, Amos Maritan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2019-04-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-41614-2