Why don't all species overexploit?

Overexploitation of natural resources is often viewed as a problem characteristic only the human species. However, any species could evolve capacity to overexploit its essential through selection and competition, even point resource collapse. Here, we describe processes that potentially lead overexploitation synthesize what known about limiters in other We propose there are five pathways counteract evolutionary drive towards and/or mitigate consequences: top–down trophic control, interference, cost-efficiency tradeoffs, trait evolution, spatial heterogeneity. These mechanisms constrain number exploiters lower rate usage at individual level. hypothesize ecosystems with reasonable functional diversity, coevolution strengthens this limiter network, preventing overexploitation, thus argue diversity begets stability via evolution. Violent population cycles species-poor northern eruptions invading alien exceptions confirm rule, because these either lack or has not been enough time for play out stabilizing role. by our own be prevented network socio-economical act an analogous way.