Fundamental unpredictability in multispecies competition.

Periodic Solutions of Multispecies-competition Predator-prey System with Holling’s Type Iii Functional Response and Prey Supplement

In this paper, we consider a nonautonomous multispecies competition predator-prey system with Holling’s type III functional response and prey supplement. It is proved that the system is uniformly persistent under some conditions. Furthermore, we show that the system has a unique positive periodic solution which is globally asymptotically stable.

Indirect effects and spatial scaling affect the persistence of multispecies metapopulations.

Quantifying the role of space and spatial scale on the population dynamics of ecological assemblages is a contemporary challenge in ecology. Here, we evaluate the role of metapopulation dynamics on the persistence and dynamics of a multispecies predator-prey assemblage where two prey species shared a common natural enemy (apparent competition). By partitioning the effects of increased resource ...

Global Attractivity and Periodic Solution of a Discrete Multispecies Cooperation and Competition Predator-Prey System

Minimal Coexistence Configurations for Multispecies Systems

We deal with strongly competing multispecies systems of Lotka-Volterra type with homogeneous Neumann boundary conditions in dumbbell-like domains. Under suitable non-degeneracy assumptions, we show that, as the competition rate grows indefinitely, the system reaches a state of coexistence of all the species in spatial segregation. Furthermore, the limit configuration is a local minimizer for th...

Diet quality determines interspecific parasite interactions in host populations

The widespread occurrence of multiple infections and the often vast range of nutritional resources for their hosts allow that interspecific parasite interactions in natural host populations might be determined by host diet quality. Nevertheless, the role of diet quality with respect to multispecies parasite interactions on host population level is not clear. We here tested the effect of host po...