ArticleEcology letters2026
Niche Overlap Is Not Enough: Same Overlap, Contrasting Fluctuations.
Article in Ecology letters, 2026. 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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- Niche Overlap Is Not Enough: Same Overlap, Contrasting Fluctuations.Ecology letters · 2026Article
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Abstract
Niche overlap (NO) is a cornerstone of coexistence theory, summarising the strength of competitive coupling among species. Yet NO collapses distinct mechanisms into a single value and may miss key dynamical features. We quantify this limitation by examining temporal correlations in species abundances, a key out-of-equilibrium observable in microbial ecology. Using a MacArthur-type consumer-resource model, we show that communities with identical NO can display opposite dynamical patterns. Within the resource-mediated fluctuation regime studied here, a yield-depletion mismatch (YDM)-the difference between depletion and yield dissimilarities-consistently predicts the sign and magnitude of abundance correlations across analytical approximations, stochastic simulations, and a reanalysis of microbial time series. In contrast, growth-rate correlations are governed by NO. More broadly, our results show that dynamical observables can depend on mechanistic details beyond those summarised by niche overlap.
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