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THEORETICAL ECOLOGY
卷 2, 期 3, 页码 171-176出版社
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s12080-009-0040-x
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Self-organized similarity; Niche construction; Biodiversity; Competition
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- PEDECIBA, Uruguay [PDT63-013]
The lumpy distribution of species along a continuous one-dimensional niche axis recently found by Scheffer and van Nes (Scheffer and van Ness 2006) is explained mathematically. We show that it emerges simply from the eigenvalue and eigenvectors of the community matrix. Both the transient patterns-lumps and gaps between them-as well as the asymptotic equilibrium are explained. If the species are evenly distributed along the niche axis, the emergence of these patterns can be demonstrated analytically. The more general case, of randomly distributed species, shows only slight deviations and is illustrated by numerical simulation. This is a robust result whenever the finiteness of the niche is taken into account: it can be extended to different analytic dependence of the interaction coefficients with the distance on the niche axis (i.e., different kernel interactions), different boundary conditions, etc. We also found that there is a critical value both for the width of the species distribution sigma and the number of species n below which the clusterization disappears.
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