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The effects of direct and indirect constraints on biological communities

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  • Lorrillière, Romain
  • Couvet, Denis
  • Robert, Alexandre

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Human activities are expected to result in a diversity of directional or stochastic constraints that affect species either directly or by indirectly impacting their resources. However, there is no theoretical framework to predict the complex and various effects of these constraints on ecological communities. We developed a dynamic model that mimics the use of different resource types by a community of competing species. We investigated the effects of different environmental constraints (affecting either directly the growth rate of species or having indirect effects on their resources) on several biodiversity indicators. Our results indicate that (i) in realistic community models (assuming uneven resource requirements among species) the effects of perturbations are strongly buffered compared to neutral models; (ii) the species richness of communities can be maximized for intermediate levels of direct constraints (unimodal response), even in the absence of trade-off between competitive ability and tolerance to constraints; (iii) no such unimodal response occurs with indirect constraints; (iv) an increase in the environmental (e.g., climatic) variance may have different effects on community biomass and species richness.

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  • Lorrillière, Romain & Couvet, Denis & Robert, Alexandre, 2012. "The effects of direct and indirect constraints on biological communities," Ecological Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 224(1), pages 103-110.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:ecomod:v:224:y:2012:i:1:p:103-110
    DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2011.10.015
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