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Impacts of Asymmetric Biotic Interactions and Environmental Factors on the Presence-Absence of Multispecies

James Omaiye Ojonubah and Mohd Hafiz Mohd

Pertanika Journal of Science & Technology, Volume 28, Issue 1, January 2020

Keywords: Coexistence, competition, invasion point, priority effects, threshold values

Published on: 13 January 2020

Interactions between multispecies are usual incidence in their habitats. Such interactions among the species are thought to be asymmetric in nature, which combine with environmental factors can determine the distributions and abundances of the species. Most often, each species responds differentially to biotic interactions and environmental factors. Therefore, predicting the presence-absence of species is a major challenge in ecology. In this paper, we used mathematical modelling to study the combined effects of biotic interactions (i.e. asymmetric competition) and environmental factors on the presence-absence of the species across a geographical region. To gain better insight on this problem, we performed invasion and numerical simulation analyses of the model of multispecies competitive dynamics. Different threshold values of competition coefficients were observed, which result in different phenomena; such as coexistence of species and priority effects. Consequently, we propose that asymmetric biotic interactions, combined with environmental factors can allow coexistence of relatively weak and strong species at the same location x

ISSN 0128-7680

e-ISSN 2231-8526

Article ID

JST-1704-2019

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