Tipping points emerge from weak mutualism in metacommunities.

The coexistence of obligate mutualists is often precariously close to tipping points where small environmental changes can drive catastrophic shifts in species composition. For example, microbial ecosystems can collapse by the decline of a strain that provides an essential resource on which other st...

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Main Authors: Jonas Denk, Oskar Hallatschek
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2024-03-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1011899&type=printable