Self-organized spatial pattern determines biodiversity in spatial competition

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 300, Issue , 2012, Pages 48-56

  Vandermeer, John ^a   Yitbarek, Senay ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Competition; Diversity; Mosaic; Pattern; Space

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CELLULAR AUTOMATON; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); NUMERICAL MODEL; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; COVARIANCE; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; MODEL; ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84856296168     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: 10958541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2012.01.005     Document Type: Article

References (56)

1. Adler F.R., LeBriun E.G., Feener D.H. Maintaining diversity in an ant community: modeling, extending, and testing the dominance-discovery tradeoff. Am. Nat. 2007, 169:323-333.
2. Alonso D., Bartumeus F., Catalan J. Mutual interference between predators can give rise to Turing spatial patterns. Ecology 2002, 83:28-34.
3. Armstrong R.A., McGehee R. Competitive exclusion. Am. Nat. 1980, 115:151-170.
4. Bascompte J., Solé R.V. Rethinking complexity: modeling spatiotemporal dynamics in ecology. TREE 1995, 10:361-366.
5. Blünthgen N., Stork N. Ant mosaics in a tropical rainforest in Australia and elsewhere: a critical review. Austral. Ecol. 2007, 32:93-104.
6. Boerlijst M.C., Hogeweg P. Spiral wave structure in pre-biotic evolution: hypercycles stable against parasites. Physica D 1991, 48:17-28.
7. Bolker B., Pacala S.W., Neuhauser C. Spatial dynamics in model pant communities: what do we really know?. Am. Nat. 2003, 162:135-148.
8. Calcagno V., Mouquet N., Jarne P., David P. Coexistence in a metacommunity: the competition-colonization trade-off is not dead. Ecol. Lett. 2006, 9:897-907.
9. Chesson P. How the spatial scales of dispersal, competition and environmental heterogeneity interact to affect coexistence. Am. Nat. 2004, 164:633-650.
10. Dieckmann, U., Law, R., Metz, J.A.J. (Eds.), 2000. The Geometry of Ecological Interactions: Simplifying Spatial Complexity. Cambridge Studies in Adaptive Dynamics. Cambridge University Press.
11. Durrett R., Levin S. The importance of being discrete and spatial. Theor. Popul. Biol. 1994, 46:363-394.
12. Durrett R., Levin S. Spatial aspects of interspecific competition. Theor. Popul. Biol. 1998, 53:30-43.
13. Edwards K.F., Schreiber S.J. Preemption of space can lead to intransitive coexistence of competitors. Oikos 2010, 119:1201-1209.
14. Frean M., Abraham E.R. Rock-scissors-paper and the survival of the weakest. Proc. R. Soc. London B 2001, 268:1323-1327.
15. Goldberg D.E., Fleetwood L. Competitive effect and response in four annual plants. J. Ecol. 1987, 75:1121-1143.
16. Goldberg D.E., Landa K. Competitive effect and response: hierarchies and correlated traits in the early stages of competition. J. Ecol. 1991, 79:1013-1030.
17. Higgins S.I., Cain M.L. Spatially realistic plant metapopulation models and the colonization-competition trade-off. J. Ecol. 2002, 90:616-626.
18. Hubbell S.P. The Unified Neutral Theory of Biodiversity and Biogeography 2001, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NH.
19. Huisman J., Weissing F.J. Biological conditions for oscillations and chaos generated by multispecies competition. Ecology 2001, 82:2682-2695.
20. Hurtt G.C., Pacala S.W. The consequences of recruitment limitation: reconciling chance, history and competitive differences between plants. J. Theor. Biol. 1995, 176:1-12.
21. Hutchinson G.E. The paradox of the plankton. Am. Nat. 1961, 95:137-145.
22. Jackson J.B.C., Buss L. Allelopathy and spatial competition among coral reef invertebrates. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 1975, 72:5160-5163.
23. Johnson C.R., Seinen I. Selection for restraint in competitive ability in spatial competition systems. Proc. R. Soc. London B 2002, 269:655-663.
24. Kerr B., Riley M.A., Feldman M.W., Bohannan B.J.M. Local dispersal promotes biodiversity in a real-life game of rock-paper-scissors. Nature 2002, 418:171-174.
25. Klausmeier C.A. Regular and irregular patterns in semiarid vegetation. Science 1999, 11:1826-1828.
26. Laird R.A., Schamp B.S. Competitive intransitivity promotes species coexistence. Am. Nat. 2006, 168:182-193.
27. Laird R.A., Schamp B.S. Does local competition increase the coexistence of species in intransitive networks?. Ecology 2008, 89:1017-1024.
28. Levins R. Evolution in Changing Environments 1968, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ.
29. Levins R. Coexistence in a variable environment. Am. Nat. 1979, 114:765-783.
30. Lovett-Doust L. Population dynamics and local specialization in a clonal perennial Ranunculus repens: I. the dynamics of ramets in contrasting habitats. J. Ecol. 1981, 69:743-755.
31. MacArthur R.H. Patterns of species diversity. Biol. Rev. 1965, 40:510-533.
32. MacArthur R.H., Levins R. The limiting similarity, convergence, and divergence of coexisting species. Am. Nat. 1967, 101:377-385.
33. Majer J.D. The ant mosaic in Ghana cocoa farms. Bull. Entomol. Res. 1972, 62:151-160.
34. May R.M. Stability and Complexity in Model Ecosystems 1973, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ.
35. May R.M., Leonard W.J. Nonlinear aspects of competition between three species. SIAM J. Appl. Math. 1975, 29:243-253.
36. Neuhauser C., Pacala S.W. An explicitly spatial version of the Lotka-Voltera model with interspecific competition. Ann. Appl. Probab. 1999, 9:1226-1259.
37. Nowak M.A., May R.M. Evolutionary games and spatial chaos. Nature 1992, 359:826-829.
38. Pascual M., Roy M., Guichard F., Flierl G. Cluster size distributions: signatures of self-organization in spatial ecologies. Philos. Trans. R. Soc. London B 2001, 357:657-666.
39. Perfecto I. Foraging behavior as a determinant of asymmetric competitive interaction between two ant species in a tropical agroecosystem. Oecologia 1994, 98:184-192.
40. Perfecto I., Vandermeer J. Discovery dominance tradeoff: the case of Pheidole subarmata and Solenopsis geminata (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Neotropical Pastures. Environ. Entomol. 2011, 40:999-1006.
41. Ribas C., Schoereder J. Are all ant mosaics caused by competition?. Oecologia 2002, 131:606-611.
42. Rohani P., Lewis T.J., Grünbaum D., Ruxton G.D. Spatial self-organization in ecology: pretty patterns or robust reality?. TREE 1997, 12:70-74.
43. Roughgarden J. Competition and theory in community ecology. Am. Nat. 1983, 122:583-601.
44. Segel L.A., Jackson J.L. Dissipative structure: an explanation and an ecological example. J. Theor. Biol. 1972, 37:545-559.
45. Sheratt T.N. Spatial mosaic formation through frequency-dependent selection in Müllerian mimicry complexes. J. Theor. Biol. 2006, 240:165-174.
46. Sinervo B., Lively C.M. The rock-paper-scissors game and the evolution of alternative male strategies. Nature 1996, 380:240-243.
47. Solé R.V., Alonso D., McKane A. Self-organized instability in complex ecosystems. Philos. Trans. R. Soc. London B 2002, 357:667-681.
48. Tilman D. Niche tradeoffs, neutrality, and community structure: a stochastic theory of resource competition, invasion, and community assembly. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 2004, 101:10854-10861.
49. Tilman D., Kareiva P. Spatial Ecology: The Role of Space in Population Dynamics and Interspecific Interactions 1997, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ.
50. Turing A. The chemical basis of morphogenesis. Philos. Trans. R. Soc. London B 1952, 237:37-72.
51. Vandermeer J. On the covariance of the community matrix. Ecology 1972, 53:187-189.
52. Vandermeer J. Intransitive loops in ecosystem models: from stable foci to heteroclinic cycles. Ecol. Complexity 2011, 8:92-97.
53. Vandermeer J., Perfecto I., Philpott S.M. Clusters of ant colonies and robust criticality in a tropical agroecosystem. Nature 2008, 451:457-459.
54. Vellend M., Litrico I. Sex and space destabilize intransitive competition within and between species. Proc. R. Soc. London B 2008, 277:1857-1864.
55. Yitbarek S., Vandermeer J., Allen D. The combined effects of exogenous and endogenous variability on the spatial distribution of ant communities in a forested ecosystem. Environ. Entomol. 2011, 40:1067-1073.
56. Yodzis P. Competition for Space and the Structure of Ecological Communities 1978, Springer-Verlag, Berlin.