Diversity begets stability: Sublinear growth and competitive coexistence across ecosystems
Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences · Max Planck Institute for Mathematics · +10 more institutions
Abstract
The worldwide loss of species diversity brings urgency to understanding how diverse ecosystems maintain stability. Whereas early ecological ideas and classic observations suggested that stability increases with diversity, ecological theory makes the opposite prediction, leading to the long-standing "diversity-stability debate." Here, we show that this puzzle can be resolved if growth scales as a sublinear power law with biomass (exponent
Citation impact
- FWCI
- 59.48
- Percentile
- 100%
- References
- 220
Authors
4- IHIan HattonCorresponding
Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics, McGill University
- OMOnofrio MazzarisiCorresponding
The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), University of Kansas, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics, National Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics
- AAAda Altieri
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Université Paris Cité, Laboratoire Matière et Systèmes Complexes
- MSMatteo Smerlak
Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Ecologie & Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics, Capital Fund Management (France), ESPCI Paris
Topics & keywords
- Sublinear function
- Diversity (politics)
- Biomass (ecology)
- Ecosystem
- Biodiversity
- Ecology
- Stability (learning theory)
- Ecological stability
- Life in Land