Towards a mathematical understanding of invasion resistance in multispecies communities.

ABSTRACT: Multispecies community composition and dynamics are key to health and disease across biological systems, a prominent example being microbial ecosystems. Explaining the forces that govern diversity and resilience in the microbial consortia making up our body's defences remains a challenge. In this, theoretical models are crucial, to bridge the gap between species dynamics and underlying mechanisms and to develop analytic insight. Here we propose a replicator equation framework to model multispecies dynamics where an explicit notion of invasion resistance of a system emerges and can be studied explicitly. For illustration, we derive the conceptual link between such replicator equation and N microbial species' growth and interaction traits, stemming from micro-scale environmental modif

SUBMITTER: Gjini E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10646464 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature