Generic assembly patterns in complex ecological communities
Abstract
Biodiversity may lead to the emergence of simple and robust relationships between ecosystem properties. Here we show that a wide range of models of species dynamics, in the limit of high diversity, exhibit generic behavior predictable from a few emergent parameters, which control ecosystem functioning and stability. Our work points toward ways to tackle the staggering complexity of ecological systems without relying on empirically unavailable details of their structure.
- Publication:
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Science
- Pub Date:
- February 2018
- DOI:
- 10.1073/pnas.1710352115
- Bibcode:
- 2018PNAS..115.2156B