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SUBMITTER: Bairey E
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4974637 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nature communications 20160802
Classical theory shows that large communities are destabilized by random interactions among species pairs, creating an upper bound on ecosystem diversity. However, species interactions often occur in high-order combinations, whereby the interaction between two species is modulated by one or more other species. Here, by simulating the dynamics of communities with random interactions, we find that the classical relationship between diversity and stability is inverted for high-order interactions. M ...[more]