Evolution to alternative levels of stable diversity leaves areas of niche space unexplored
Fig 5
Levels of metastable diversity.
The final evolutionary diversity when seeding the simulation with different numbers of initial species. Red indicates simulations with a quartic carrying capacity kernel, while blue are those with a radially symmetric carrying capacity kernel. Open circles are simulations with only symmetric competition. Full circles are simulations run with asymmetric competition. The b values dictating the competition asymmetry can be found in Table D in S1 Parameters. All other parameters remained the same for all simulations and can be found in Table A S1 Parameters as well.