A mechanistic verification of the competitive exclusion principle
Abstract
Biodiversity conservation becoming increasingly urgent. It is important to find mechanisms of competitive coexistence of species with different fitness in especially difficult circumstances - on one limiting resource, in isolated stable uniform habitat, without any trade-offs and cooperative interactions. Here we show a mechanism of competitive coexistence based on a soliton-like behaviour of population waves. We have modelled it by the logical axiomatic deterministic individual-based cellular automata method. Our mechanistic models of population and ecosystem dynamics are of white-box type and so they provide direct insight into mechanisms under study. The mechanism provides indefinite coexistence of two, three and four competing species. This mechanism violates the known formulations of the competitive exclusion principle. As a consequence, we have proposed a fully mechanistic and most stringent formulation of the principle.
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@article{arxiv.1211.1869,
title = {A mechanistic verification of the competitive exclusion principle},
author = {Lev V. Kalmykov and Vyacheslav L. Kalmykov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1211.1869},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
Because the known formulations of the competitive exclusion principle were violated in the first version of the manuscript, we have radically reformulated this principle. A new formulation of the principle is presented in the second version of the manuscript