Predicting coexistence of plants subject to a tolerance-competition trade-off

DOI10.1007/S00285-013-0692-4MaRDI QIDQ2249676zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors B. Haegeman, Tewfik Sari, Rampal S. Etienne

Publication date 3 July 2014

Published in Journal of Mathematical Biology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1305.4506

zbMATH Keywords

community ecologycompetitionecological trade-offspecies coexistence

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamical systems in biology (37N25) Ecology (92D40)

Abstract: Ecological trade-offs between species are often invoked to explain species coexistence in ecological communities. However, few mathematical models have been proposed for which coexistence conditions can be characterized explicitly in terms of a trade-off. Here we present a model of a plant community which allows such a characterization. In the model plant species compete for sites where each site has a fixed stress condition. Species differ both in stress tolerance and competitive ability. Stress tolerance is quantified as the fraction of sites with stress conditions low enough to allow establishment. Competitive ability is quantified as the propensity to win the competition for empty sites. We derive the deterministic, discrete-time dynamical system for the species abundances. We prove the conditions under which plant species can coexist in a stable equilibrium. We show that the coexistence conditions can be characterized graphically, clearly illustrating the trade-off between stress tolerance and competitive ability. We compare our model with a recently proposed, continuous-time dynamical system for a tolerance-fecundity trade-off in plant communities, and we show that this model is a special case of the continuous-time version of our model.

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