Yiyuan Niu

Oct 30, 2024 | elifesciences.org | Ju Eun Kang |Shijie Zhang |Yiyuan Niu |Fan Zhong

eLife assessment This manuscript is an important contribution, assessing the role of intraspecific consumer interference in maintaining diversity using a mathematical model. Consistent with long-standing ecological theory, the authors convincingly show that predator interference allows for the coexistence of multiple species on a single resource, beyond the competitive exclusion principle. Notably, the model matches observed rank-abundance curves in several natural ecosystems.