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  • Ecology
  • Theoretical Ecology
  • Biodiversity Science

Background:

  • Ecological communities face challenges in maintaining biodiversity, as simple models fail to explain large, stable ecosystems.
  • Neutral models, while accounting for immigration and speciation, produce unrealistic population dynamics and species-age correlations.
  • Existing models lack the ability to robustly explain the persistence of large, interacting ecological communities.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the role of higher-order interactions in stabilizing ecological communities.
  • To develop models that can explain the robust persistence of large, diverse ecological communities.
  • To clarify the impact of higher-order interactions on ecological community structure and dynamics.

Main Methods:

  • Development of competitive network models incorporating higher-order interactions.
  • Analysis of model dynamics under perturbations of population abundance and parameter values.
  • Framework where higher-order interactions are defined by pairwise interactions for empirical validation.

Main Results:

  • Inclusion of higher-order interactions significantly stabilizes ecological community dynamics.
  • Species coexistence becomes robust to perturbations in both population abundance and parameter values.
  • Higher-order interactions demonstrate strong effects in both closed and open ecological community models.

Conclusions:

  • Higher-order interactions are crucial for the robust persistence of large, diverse ecological communities.
  • This research provides a theoretical framework for understanding biodiversity maintenance through complex species interactions.
  • The proposed model facilitates empirical parameterization and validation, advancing ecological theory.