Mapping species niche and fitness differences for communities with multiple interaction types

Oikos ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jürg W. Spaak ◽  
Oscar Godoy ◽  
Frederik De Laender
Keyword(s):  
Interaction Types ◽  
Multiple Interaction

scholarly journals Stability of an adaptive hybrid community

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Mougi
Keyword(s):  
Adaptive Behavior ◽  
Ecological Communities ◽  
Interaction Type ◽  
Natural Ecosystems ◽  
Predator Prey ◽  
Interaction Partners ◽  
Key Factor ◽  
Interaction Types ◽  
Multiple Interaction ◽  
The Stability

Abstract Contrary to stable natural ecosystems, the classical ecological theory predicts that complex ecological communities are fragile. The adaptive switching of interaction partners was proposed as a key factor to resolve the complexity–stability problem. However, this theory is based on the food webs that comprise predator–prey interactions alone; thus, the manner in which adaptive behavior affects the dynamics of hybrid communities with multiple interaction types remains unclear. Here, using a bipartite community network model with antagonistic and mutualistic interactions, I show that adaptive partner shifts by both antagonists and mutualists are crucial to the persistence of communities. The results show that adaptive behavior destabilizes the dynamics of communities with a single interaction type; however, the hybridity of multiple interaction types within a community greatly improves the stability. Moreover, adaptive behavior does not create a positive complexity–stability relationship in communities with a single interaction type but it does in the hybrid community. The diversity of interaction types is predicted to play a crucial role in community maintenance in an adaptive world.

scholarly journals Correction to ‘Unravelling Darwin's entangled bank: architecture and robustness of mutualistic networks with multiple interaction types’

2017 ◽  
Vol 284 (1846) ◽  
pp. 20162635
Author(s):  
Wesley Dáttilo ◽  
Nubia Lara-Rodríguez ◽  
Pedro Jordano ◽  
Paulo R. Guimarães ◽  
John N. Thompson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mutualistic Networks ◽  
Interaction Types ◽  
Multiple Interaction

scholarly journals The diversity of interaction types drives the functioning of ecological communities

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vincent Miele ◽  
Christian Guill ◽  
Rodrigo Ramos-Jiliberto ◽  
Sonia Kéfi
Keyword(s):  
Species Diversity ◽  
Ecological Communities ◽  
Community Functioning ◽  
Extinction Rates ◽  
Predator Interference ◽  
Interaction Types ◽  
Multiple Interaction ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Diverse Interactions

AbstractEcological communities are undeniably diverse, both in terms of the species that compose them as well as the type of interactions that link species to each other. Despite this long-recognition of the coexistence of multiple interaction types in nature, little is known about the consequences of this diversity for community functioning. In the ongoing context of global change and increasing species extinction rates, it seems crucial to improve our understanding of the drivers of the relationship between species diversity and ecosystem functioning.Here, using a multispecies dynamical model of ecological communities including various interaction types (e.g. competition for space, predator interference, recruitment facilitation), we studied the role of the presence and the intensity of these interactions for species diversity, community functioning (biomass and production) and the relationship between diversity and functioning.Taken jointly, the diverse interactions have significant effects on species diversity, whose amplitude and sign depend on the type of interactions involved and their relative abundance. They however consistently increase the slope of the relationship between diversity and functioning, suggesting that species losses might have stronger effects on community functioning than expected when ignoring the diversity of interaction types and focusing on feeding interactions only.

Stability of a diamond-shaped module with multiple interaction types

2015 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alix M. C. Sauve ◽  
Colin Fontaine ◽  
Elisa Thébault
Keyword(s):  
Interaction Types ◽  
Multiple Interaction

Multiple interaction types determine the impact of ant predation of caterpillars in a forest community

Ecology ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 97 (12) ◽  
pp. 3379-3388 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert E. Clark ◽  
Timothy E. Farkas ◽  
Isaac Lichter-Marck ◽  
Emily R. Johnson ◽  
Michael S. Singer
Keyword(s):  
Forest Community ◽  
Ant Predation ◽  
Interaction Types ◽  
Multiple Interaction ◽  
The Impact

scholarly journals Population cycles emerging through multiple interaction types

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (9) ◽  
pp. 170536 ◽  
Author(s):  
Naoya Mitani ◽  
Akihiko Mougi
Keyword(s):  
Species Interactions ◽  
Weak Interactions ◽  
Population Cycles ◽  
Natural Ecosystems ◽  
Species Population ◽  
Hybrid Module ◽  
Cyclic Dynamics ◽  
Interaction Types ◽  
Multiple Interaction ◽  
Dynamics Of Populations

Cyclic dynamics of populations are outstanding and widespread phenomena across many taxa. Previous theoretical studies have mainly focused on the consumer–resource interaction as the driving force for such cycling. However, natural ecosystems comprise diverse types of species interactions, but their roles in population dynamics remains unclear. Here, using a four-species hybrid module with antagonistic, mutualistic and competitive interactions, we analytically showed that the system with major interaction types can drive population cycles. Stronger interactions easily cause cycling, and even when sub-modules with possible combinations of two interactions are stabilized by weak interactions, the system with all interaction types can cause unstable population oscillations. Diversity of interaction types allows to add mutualists to the list of drivers of oscillations in a focal species' population size, when they act in conjunction to other drivers.

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