According to the invasion criterion, stable coexistence requires that all species in a
community increase in abundance when rare, which occurs when stabilizing mechanisms …

From genes to communities, understanding how diversity is maintained remains a
fundamental question in biology. One challenging to identify, yet potentially ubiquitous …

Community ecology typically assumes that competitive exclusion and species coexistence
are unaffected by evolution on the time scale of ecological dynamics. However, recent …

Coexistence between plant species is well known to depend on the outcomes of species
interactions within an environmental context. The incorporation of environmental variation …

Modern coexistence theory (MCT) holds the potential to study the ability of species to avoid
extinction (ie to persist) across community types but is rarely applied beyond pairs of …

摘要生物多样性是生态系统复杂性的重要特征, 理解多样性的形成和维持机制一直是理论生态学
研究的核心议题. 本文从三方面概述了生物多样性理论的最新进展. 一是物种共存和群落构建 …

Explaining nature's biodiversity is a key challenge for science. To persist, populations must
be able to grow faster when rare, a feature called negative frequency dependence and …

While many ecological theories have historically invoked niche differences as the primary
mechanism allowing species coexistence, we now know that coexistence in competitive …

The persistence of a species in a given place not only depends on its intrinsic capacity to
consume and transform resources into offspring, but also on how changing environmental …

Growing evidence suggests that temporally fluctuating environments are important in
maintaining variation both within and between species. To date, however, studies of genetic …