How the storage effect and the number of temporal niches affect biodiversity in stochastic and seasonal environments
Fig 5
The dynamic of a Q = 3 community.
The abundance of all species is plotted against time (generations) for global-periodic (left panel) and local-periodic (right panel) competition. Global competition gives an advantage to specialists, therefore the community is dominated by three specialist species, and all other invaders either stay small or (if the invader is a better specialist) take over a given temporal niche and replace the existing specialist. Under local competition, many species coexist, with no gap between the abundances of the dominant species and the abundance of all other species. For both panels, parameters are: Q = 3, N = 10, 000, ν = 0.005, γ = 0.4, and δ = 0.2.