Among approaches to establish the importance of niche differentiation for species
coexistence, the use of functional traits is attractive for its potential to suggest specific …

Ecologists have long agreed that to coexist species must be sufficiently different (1, 2). This
worldview was challenged when Stephen Hubbell published his neutral theory of …

The nodes and their connection relationships are the two main bodies for dynamic complex
networks. In existing theoretical researches, the phenomena of stabilization and …

The mechanisms that drive species coexistence and community dynamics have long
puzzled ecologists. Here, we explain species coexistence, size structure and diversity …

Patterns of trait distribution among competing species can potentially reveal the processes
that allow them to coexist. It has been recently proposed that competition may drive the …

In this paper, a class of discrete-time complex dynamical networks with time-varying links is
regarded to be composed of the nodes subsystem and links subsystem which are mutually …

When a collection of phenotypically diverse organisms compete with each other for limited
resources, the population can evolve into tightly localised clusters. Past studies have …

While species fulfill many different roles in ecosystems, it has been suggested that
numerous species might actually share the same function in a near neutral way. So-far …

In the existing research results of the complex dynamical networks controlled, the controllers
are mainly used to guarantee the synchronization or stabilization of the nodes' state, and the …

Understanding the mechanisms that maintain biodiversity is a fundamental problem in
ecology. Competition is thought to reduce diversity, but hundreds of microbial aquatic …