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ReviewQuantitative biology (Beijing, China)2025

Mechanisms promoting biodiversity in ecosystems.

Ju Kang, Yiyuan Niu, Xin Wang

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Review in Quantitative biology (Beijing, China), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

  1. Mechanisms promoting biodiversity in ecosystems.Quantitative biology (Beijing, China) · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Ju KangSchool of Physics Sun Yat-sen University Guangzhou China.
Yiyuan NiuSchool of Physics Sun Yat-sen University Guangzhou China.
Xin WangSchool of Physics Sun Yat-sen University Guangzhou China.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Explaining biodiversity is the central focus in theoretical ecology. A significant obstacle arises from the competitive exclusion principle (CEP), which states that two species competing for the same type of resources cannot coexist at constant population densities, or more generally, the number of consumer species cannot exceed that of resource species at steady states. The conflict between CEP and biodiversity is exemplified by the paradox of the plankton, where a few types of limiting resources support a plethora of plankton species. In this review, we introduce mechanisms proposed over the years for promoting biodiversity in ecosystems, with a special focus on those that alleviate the constraints imposed by the CEP, including mechanisms that challenge the CEP in well-mixed systems at a steady state or those that circumvent its limitations through contextual differences.

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biodiversitycompetitive exclusion principleparadox of the plankton

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PMID41675377
PMCPMC12806079

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