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Area of Science:

  • Ecology
  • Theoretical Ecology
  • Mathematical Biology

Background:

  • Resource competition theory posits species number is limited by resources.
  • Existing models often lack realistic assumptions about organismal resource storage.
  • Resource storage can decouple organismal growth from external resource fluctuations.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the impact of resource storage on ecological competition dynamics.
  • To extend the Droop model for resource storage to multi-species, multi-resource systems.
  • To explore how storage affects species coexistence and community dynamics.

Main Methods:

  • Extension of the Droop model to incorporate resource storage in a multi-species, multi-resource context.
  • Analysis of model dynamics, including equilibrium, oscillations, and chaos.
  • Comparison of dynamics with and without resource storage.

Main Results:

  • The extended Droop model exhibits complex dynamics similar to models without storage.
  • Non-equilibrium dynamics, facilitated by resource storage, allow for many species to coexist on few resources.
  • Observed dynamics include competitive exclusion, stable coexistence, periodic and non-periodic oscillations, and chaos.

Conclusions:

  • Resource storage does not fundamentally alter the potential for complex dynamics in competition models.
  • Non-equilibrium dynamics driven by storage are crucial for understanding multi-species coexistence on limited resources.
  • Findings highlight the importance of luxury consumption, competitive trade-offs, and ecological stoichiometry in resource competition.