Sten Madec

Nov 9, 2024 | biorxiv.org | Sten Madec |Erida Gjini |Instituto Técnico |Institut Denis Poisson

AbstractEcosystems are constantly exposed to new strains of a given species. Which strain will be able to invade a resident multi-species community depends on the strain's relative fitness. Here we develop an approach to quantify fitness differences between two co-invading strains based on the replicator equation.

Sep 10, 2024 | biorxiv.org | Erida Gjini |Instituto Técnico |Sten Madec

AbstractHow does coexistence of multiple species or pathogen strains arise in a system? What do coexistence patterns in time and space reveal about the epidemiology, ecology and evolution of such systems? Species abundance patterns often defy fully mechanistic explanations, especially when compositional variation and relative taxa abundances differ across settings.