Persistence in fluctuating environments

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DOI10.1007/S00285-010-0349-5zbMATH Open1232.92075arXiv1005.2580OpenAlexW3101747931WikidataQ33598822 ScholiaQ33598822MaRDI QIDQ663158FDOQ663158


Authors: Sebastian J. Schreiber, Michel Benaïm, Kolawolé A. S. Atchadé Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 14 February 2012

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

Abstract: Understanding under what conditions interacting populations, whether they be plants, animals, or viral particles, coexist is a question of theoretical and practical importance in population biology. Both biotic interactions and environmental fluctuations are key factors that can facilitate or disrupt coexistence. To better understand this interplay between these deterministic and stochastic forces, we develop a mathematical theory extending the nonlinear theory of permanence for deterministic systems to stochastic difference and differential equations. Our condition for coexistence requires that there is a fixed set of weights associated with the interacting populations and this weighted combination of populations' invasion rates is positive for any (ergodic) stationary distribution associated with a subcollection of populations. Here, an invasion rate corresponds to an average per-capita growth rate along a stationary distribution. When this condition holds and there is sufficient noise in the system, we show that the populations approach a unique positive stationary distribution. Moreover, we show that our coexistence criterion is robust to small perturbations of the model functions. Using this theory, we illustrate that (i) environmental noise enhances or inhibits coexistence in communities with rock-paper-scissor dynamics depending on correlations between interspecific demographic rates, (ii) stochastic variation in mortality rates has no effect on the coexistence criteria for discrete-time Lotka-Volterra communities, and (iii) random forcing can promote genetic diversity in the presence of exploitative interactions.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1005.2580




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