Understanding the mechanisms that maintain microbial biodiversity is a critical aspiration in ecology. Past work on microbial coexistence has largely focused on species pairs, but it is unclear whether pairwise coexistence in isolation is required for coexistence in a multispecies community. To address ...
This creates communities with species clumped along a temperature niche axis, with stable coexistence between groups and near neutrality within groups. The near neutrality results in interspecific synchrony within the groups, providing an explanation for the maintenance of high diversity in competitive ...
Theoretical analyses of multispecies competition suggest that the stable coexistence of three competition species may occur even when all the pairwise combinations of the same species do not result in stable equilibria. In an attempt to discover such an emergent property of multispecies competition, we...