The Limiting Similarity, Convergence, and Divergence of Coexisting Species.¶
Macarthur, R., & Levins, R. (1967). The Limiting Similarity, Convergence, and Divergence of Coexisting Species. The American Naturalist, 101(921), 377-385.
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Primes¶
- Anti-Coordination Game
- In ecology, closely related species coexist by specializing on different resources, micro-habitats, or activity periods, since competition is strongest when species occupy the same niche; competitive exclusion and niche partitioning are the parent biology.
This sourceFoundational treatment of niche partitioning and limiting similarity: coexistence requires divergence in resource use because competition is strongest among species occupying the same niche.
- In ecology, closely related species coexist by specializing on different resources, micro-habitats, or activity periods, since competition is strongest when species occupy the same niche; competitive exclusion and niche partitioning are the parent biology.
- Specialization
- Ecology: Niche specialization, in which species narrow their resource use to reduce direct competition; the limiting-similarity and competitive-exclusion principles formalize how far co-existing species can overlap before one displaces the other, as MacArthur and Levins (1967) modeled.
This sourceModels limiting similarity and competitive exclusion, formalizing how far co-existing species can overlap in resource use before one displaces the other.
- Ecology: Niche specialization, in which species narrow their resource use to reduce direct competition; the limiting-similarity and competitive-exclusion principles formalize how far co-existing species can overlap before one displaces the other, as MacArthur and Levins (1967) modeled.
- Strategic Substitute
- Ecology: competing species or strains evolve toward niche partitioning when their use of a shared resource is substitutable; resource-competition models map onto submodular games.
This sourceResource-competition theory showing competing species drawing on a shared resource evolve toward niche partitioning — the ecological interior equilibrium of a submodular (strategic-substitute) interaction, related to the Lotka–Volterra competition equations.
- Ecology: competing species or strains evolve toward niche partitioning when their use of a shared resource is substitutable; resource-competition models map onto submodular games.
Domain-specific¶
- Limiting similarity
- It is not one universal distance, one ratio of niche widths, or a field rule that every similar pair must exclude one another.
This sourceThis entry makes no exact numerical-formula claim from that reproduction.
- It is not one universal distance, one ratio of niche widths, or a field rule that every similar pair must exclude one another.
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