Comment on “The paradox of the ‘paradox of the plankton’” by Record et al.

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Cropp, Roger
Norbury, John
Griffith University Author(s)
Year published
2014
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The biodiversity of plankton ecosystems is no longer a paradox. The mathematical mechanisms that determine the coexistence of competitors in a general class of models, which includes almost all theoretical and applied mass conserving ecosystem models in present use, are clear. Knowledge of these mechanisms simplifies the identification and construction of models with the structural property that all species coexist for all time, irrespective of environmental forcings, spatial interactions, and further model complexities. Here, we discuss the "paradox of the 'paradox of the plankton'" proposed by Record et al. (ICES Journal ...
View more >The biodiversity of plankton ecosystems is no longer a paradox. The mathematical mechanisms that determine the coexistence of competitors in a general class of models, which includes almost all theoretical and applied mass conserving ecosystem models in present use, are clear. Knowledge of these mechanisms simplifies the identification and construction of models with the structural property that all species coexist for all time, irrespective of environmental forcings, spatial interactions, and further model complexities. Here, we discuss the "paradox of the 'paradox of the plankton'" proposed by Record et al. (ICES Journal of Marine Science, 71: 236-240) and explain the mechanisms that underpin the solution.
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View more >The biodiversity of plankton ecosystems is no longer a paradox. The mathematical mechanisms that determine the coexistence of competitors in a general class of models, which includes almost all theoretical and applied mass conserving ecosystem models in present use, are clear. Knowledge of these mechanisms simplifies the identification and construction of models with the structural property that all species coexist for all time, irrespective of environmental forcings, spatial interactions, and further model complexities. Here, we discuss the "paradox of the 'paradox of the plankton'" proposed by Record et al. (ICES Journal of Marine Science, 71: 236-240) and explain the mechanisms that underpin the solution.
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Journal Title
ICES Journal of Marine Science
Volume
71
Issue
2
Copyright Statement
© 2014 Oxford University Press. This is a pre-copy-editing, author-produced PDF of an article accepted for publication in Glycobiology following peer review. The definitive publisher-authenticated version, Comment on “The paradox of the 'paradox of the plankton'” by Record et al., Glycobiology, Vol. 71(2), pp. 293-295 is available online at: dx.doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fst212.
Subject
Dynamical systems in applications
Ecosystem function