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  • Ecology
  • Evolutionary Biology
  • Theoretical Ecology

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  • Species-rich communities are common but theoretically challenging due to instability in complex competitive systems.
  • The structure of interspecific interaction networks is increasingly linked to community stability, but mechanisms remain unclear.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To introduce an evolutionary model that explains the spontaneous emergence of stable, structured, and diverse communities.
  • To investigate the relationship between community phylogeny and the structure of interspecific competition.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized a generic Lotka-Volterra competitive framework.
  • Developed an evolutionary model to simulate community assembly and competition dynamics.
  • Analyzed the structure of the competition matrix in relation to species phylogeny.

Main Results:

  • The model spontaneously generated stable and diverse communities with a modular competition structure.
  • This modular structure mirrored the hierarchical taxonomic classification of species.
  • Closely related species exhibited stronger niche overlap and weaker fitness differences compared to distantly related species.

Conclusions:

  • Phylogenetic relatedness drives the modular structure of competition, promoting community stability.
  • The findings support the competitive-relatedness hypothesis and offer insights into emergent neutrality.
  • Evolutionary processes can generate the complex, stable ecological communities observed in nature.