Individual-Scale Coexistence Mechanisms in Exploitation Competition Systems

9873650威尔逊本研究将为生态学领域的实证和理论研究领域提供重要贡献。 这项工作也代表了基于个人的生态系统模拟的重要发展和扩展，这是一种越来越流行的理论方法。这项研究将建立在过去的建模工作，使用一个简单的分析资源消费者模型，研究两个消费者物种竞争一个共同的结构资源。这个提议的目标是揭示个体规模的相互作用和过程，导致开发竞争者的进化稳定共存。它将制定标准，并作出预测，根据共存的期望分类和比较经验系统。 或者换句话说，是否存在决定共存的一个至关重要的特征，以及具有和不具有该特征的经验系统是否符合由此产生的共存预测？ 这项研究代表了生态系统模拟的重要和扩展，其中模拟模型与一系列分析模型结合使用，以最大限度地提高理论洞察力。

9873650WilsonThis research will provide important contributions to both empirical and theoretical research areas in the field of ecology. This work also represents an important development and extension of individual-based simulations of ecological systems, which is an increasingly popular theoretical approach. The research will build upon past modeling work that used a simple analytic resource-consumer model that examined two consumer species competing for a common structure resource. The goal of this proposal is to uncover the individual-scale interactions and processes that lead to evolutionarily stable coexistence of exploitation competitors. It will develop criteria and make predictions to classify and compare empirical systems according to coexistence expectations. Or in other words, is there a critically important feature that determines coexistence and do empirical systems with and without this feature conform to the resultant coexistence predictions? This research represents an important and extension of simulations of ecological systems in which simulation models are used in conjunction with a range of analytic models to maximize theoretical insight.