Université de Fribourg

A structural approach for understanding multispecies coexistence

Saavedra, Serguei ; Rohr, Rudolf P. ; Bascompte, Jordi ; Godoy, Oscar ; Kraft, Nathan J. B. ; Levine, Jonathan M.

In: Ecological Monographs, 2017, p. -

Although observations of species-rich communities have long served as a primary motivation for research on the coexistence of competitors, the majority of our empirical and theoretical understanding comes from two-species systems. How much of the coexistence observed in species rich communities results from indirect effects among competitors that only emerge in diverse systems remains poorly...