期刊
JOURNAL OF MATHEMATICAL BIOLOGY
卷 50, 期 2, 页码 133-160出版社
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00285-004-0283-5
关键词
limiting similarity; ecological niche; regulated coexistence; Lotka-Volterra competition model; physiologically structured populations; evolution of seed-size; structural stability
We investigate the possibility of coexistence of pure, inherited strategies belonging to a large set of potential strategies. We prove that under biologically relevant conditions every model allowing for coexistence of infinitely many strategies is structurally unstable. In particular, this is the case when the interaction operator which determines how the growth rate of a strategy depends on the strategy distribution of the population is compact. The interaction operator is not assumed to be linear. We investigate a Lotka-Volterra competition model with a linear interaction operator of convolution type separately because the convolution operator is not compact. For this model, we exclude the possibility of robust coexistence supported on the whole real line, or even on a set containing a limit point. Moreover, we exclude coexistence of an infinite set of equidistant strategies when the total population size is finite. On the other hand, for infinite populations it is possible to have robust coexistence in this case. These results are in line with the ecological concept of limiting similarity of coexisting species. We conclude that the mathematical structure of the ecological coexistence problem itself dictates the discreteness of the species.
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