How the storage effect and the number of temporal niches affect biodiversity in stochastic and seasonal environments
Fig 3
The outcome of a typical simulation.
Shown are the species richness (panel A) and Shannon’s entropy (panel B) of a specific run of our simulation. The parameters of this run are δ = 0.2, N = 10000, γ = 0.4 and ν = 1/N. Competition is global, variations are periodic and the number of niches is Q = 3. At the initial state all individuals belong to a single species, hence SR = 1 and the entropy is zero. The system equilibrates after less than 1000 generations, and from this point species richness fluctuates around 8.8 and the entropy fluctuates around 1.2.