Diversity is a fundamental, yet threatened, property of ecological systems. The idea that diversity can itself favour diversification, in an autocatalytic process, is very appealing but remains controversial. Here, we study a generalized model of ecological communities and investigate how the level of initial diversity influences the possibility of evolutionary diversification.

Référence : Calcagno, V., Jarne, P., Loreau, M., Mouquet, N., & David, P. (2017). Diversity spurs diversification in ecological communities. Nat. Commun., 8, 15810. doi:10.1038/ncomms15810