Science,
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
381(6655), P. 343 - 348
Published: July 20, 2023
Understanding
the
mechanisms
that
maintain
microbial
biodiversity
is
a
critical
aspiration
in
ecology.
Past
work
on
coexistence
has
largely
focused
species
pairs,
but
it
unclear
whether
pairwise
isolation
required
for
multispecies
community.
To
address
this
question,
we
conducted
hundreds
of
competition
experiments
among
stably
coexisting
members
12
different
enrichment
communities
vitro.
determine
outcomes
these
experiments,
developed
an
automated
image
analysis
pipeline
to
quantify
abundances.
We
found
competitive
exclusion
was
most
common
outcome,
and
strongly
hierarchical
transitive.
Because
many
coexist
within
stable
community
fail
co-culture
under
identical
conditions,
concluded
emergent
phenomenon.
This
highlights
importance
context
understanding
origins
complex
ecosystems.
Physics Reports,
Journal Year:
2020,
Volume and Issue:
874, P. 1 - 92
Published: June 13, 2020
The
complexity
of
many
biological,
social
and
technological
systems
stems
from
the
richness
interactions
among
their
units.
Over
past
decades,
a
great
variety
complex
has
been
successfully
described
as
networks
whose
interacting
pairs
nodes
are
connected
by
links.
Yet,
in
face-to-face
human
communication,
chemical
reactions
ecological
systems,
can
occur
groups
three
or
more
cannot
be
simply
just
terms
simple
dyads.
Until
recently,
little
attention
devoted
to
higher-order
architecture
real
systems.
However,
mounting
body
evidence
is
showing
that
taking
structure
these
into
account
greatly
enhance
our
modeling
capacities
help
us
understand
predict
emerging
dynamical
behaviors.
Here,
we
present
complete
overview
field
beyond
pairwise
interactions.
We
first
discuss
methods
represent
give
unified
presentation
different
frameworks
used
describe
highlighting
links
between
existing
concepts
representations.
review
measures
designed
characterize
models
proposed
literature
generate
synthetic
structures,
such
random
growing
simplicial
complexes,
bipartite
graphs
hypergraphs.
introduce
rapidly
research
on
topology.
focus
novel
emergent
phenomena
characterizing
landmark
processes,
diffusion,
spreading,
synchronization
games,
when
extended
elucidate
relations
topology
properties,
conclude
with
summary
empirical
applications,
providing
an
outlook
current
conceptual
frontiers.
Science,
Journal Year:
2018,
Volume and Issue:
361(6401), P. 469 - 474
Published: Aug. 3, 2018
Interchanging
species
of
similar
function
Under
natural
conditions,
bacteria
form
mixed,
interacting
communities.
Understanding
how
such
communities
assemble
and
stabilize
is
important
in
a
range
contexts,
from
biotechnological
applications
to
what
happens
our
guts.
Goldford
et
al.
sampled
the
microbial
soil
plants
containing
hundreds
thousands
sequence
variants.
The
organisms
were
passaged
after
culture
low
concentrations
single
carbon
sources
cross-fed
with
each
other's
metabolites;
then,
resulting
sequenced
using
16S
ribosomal
RNA,
outcomes
modeled
mathematically.
mix
that
survived
under
steady
conditions
converged
reproducibly
reflect
experimentally
imposed
rather
than
initially
inoculated—although
at
coarse
phylogenetic
levels,
taxonomic
patterns
persisted.
Science
,
this
issue
p.
469
Ecology Letters,
Journal Year:
2018,
Volume and Issue:
21(9), P. 1319 - 1329
Published: June 25, 2018
Abstract
Theory
predicts
that
intraspecific
competition
should
be
stronger
than
interspecific
for
any
pair
of
stably
coexisting
species,
yet
previous
literature
reviews
found
little
support
this
pattern.
We
screened
over
5400
publications
and
identified
39
studies
quantified
phenomenological
interactions
in
terrestrial
plant
communities.
Of
the
67%
species
pairs
which
both
intra‐
effects
were
negative
(competitive),
was,
on
average,
four
to
five‐fold
competition.
remaining
pairs,
93%
featured
facilitation,
a
situation
stabilises
coexistence.
The
difference
between
tended
larger
observational
experimental
data
sets,
field
greenhouse
studies,
population
growth
full
life
cycle
rather
single
fitness
components.
Our
results
imply
processes
promoting
stable
coexistence
at
local
scales
are
common
consequential
across
Ecological Monographs,
Journal Year:
2018,
Volume and Issue:
88(3), P. 277 - 303
Published: April 15, 2018
Abstract
We
give
a
comprehensive
review
of
Chesson's
coexistence
theory,
summarizing,
for
the
first
time,
all
its
fundamental
details
in
one
single
document.
Our
goal
is
both
theoretical
and
empirical
ecologists
to
be
able
use
theory
interpret
their
findings,
get
precise
sense
limits
applicability.
To
this
end,
we
introduce
an
explicit
handling
limiting
factors,
new
way
defining
scaling
factors
that
partition
invasion
growth
rates
into
different
mechanisms
contributing
coexistence.
explain
terminology
such
as
relative
nonlinearity,
storage
effect,
growth‐density
covariance,
formal
setting
through
biological
interpretation.
theory's
applications
contributions
our
current
understanding
species
While
very
general,
it
not
well
suited
problems,
so
carefully
point
out
limitations.
Finally,
critique
paradigm
decomposing
stabilizing
equalizing
components:
argue
these
concepts
are
useful
when
used
judiciously,
but
have
often
been
employed
overly
simplified
justify
false
claims.
Journal of The Royal Society Interface,
Journal Year:
2022,
Volume and Issue:
19(188)
Published: March 1, 2022
Network
science
has
evolved
into
an
indispensable
platform
for
studying
complex
systems.
But
recent
research
identified
limits
of
classical
networks,
where
links
connect
pairs
nodes,
to
comprehensively
describe
group
interactions.
Higher-order
a
link
can
more
than
two
have
therefore
emerged
as
new
frontier
in
network
science.
Since
interactions
are
common
social,
biological
and
technological
systems,
higher-order
networks
recently
led
important
discoveries
across
many
fields
research.
Here,
we
review
these
works,
focusing
particular
on
the
novel
aspects
dynamics
that
emerges
networks.
We
cover
variety
dynamical
processes
thus
far
been
studied,
including
different
synchronization
phenomena,
contagion
processes,
evolution
cooperation
consensus
formation.
also
outline
open
challenges
promising
directions
future
Journal of Ecology,
Journal Year:
2018,
Volume and Issue:
106(5), P. 1773 - 1794
Published: Aug. 13, 2018
Abstract
A
quantitative
approach
to
species
coexistence
based
on
the
invasibility
criterion
has
led
an
appreciation
of
mechanisms
in
terms
stabilizing
and
equalizing
components,
but
major
challenges
are
need
consider
general
multispecies
settings,
interactions
beyond
competition,
multiple
scales
space
time.
Moreover,
two
essential
concepts,
species‐level
average
fitness
scaling
factors,
have
not
had
clear
definitions.
defining
fitnesses
factors
is
given,
along
with
origin
as
deviations
from
a
reference
model
where
no
possible.
Illustrations
Lotka–Volterra
models,
models
accounting
specifically
for
resource
use
natural
enemies,
temporal
fluctuations.
Community
averages
reveal
overall
opportunities
coexistence,
define
more
precisely
through
their
formulae.
Average
adjusted
presence
provide
better
definition
mechanisms.
While
these
ideas
apply
components
invasion
rates,
permanence
theory
stochastic
persistence
show
how
rates
can
be
used
demonstrate
complex
settings.
Although
often
focused
detailed
roles
enemies
new
perspective
nature.
The
concept
apparent
competition
recognizes
symmetry
between
density‐dependence
depletion
supporting
enemies.
Natural
enemy
partitioning
analogue
equivalent
role
promoting
coexistence.
Rather
than
reinforcing
each
other,
however,
strength
intermediate
that
implied
by
alone
alone,
elucidated
recent
theory.
Synthesis
.
there
alternative
approaches
understanding
continue
insights.
Multiple
trophic
levels
naturally
challenging,
theories
support
critical
thus
derived
into
differences
components.