Does mutualism hinder biodiversity?

Published 5 Sep 2014 in q-bio.PE | (1409.1683v1)

Abstract: A paper by James et al. finds that mutualistic interactions decrease the biodiversity of model ecosystems. However, this result can be reverted if we consider ecological trade-offs and choose parameters suitable for sparse mutualistic networks instead of fully connected networks.

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