🚨 new preprint online 🚨
Fitness Landscapes of biotic INTeractions (FLINTs) shape the ecological and evolutionary dynamics of biodiversity
Two fundamental properties of life are that organisms are diverse and that organisms interact with each other. Theoretical and empirical researchers have long studied links between interactions and biodiversity, but unfortunately often separated by a substantial gap. We aim to bridge that gap! Enjoy reading!
🚨 new paper online 🚨
From friend to foe and back: coevolutionary transitions in the mutualism–antagonism continuum
1st author Felix Jäger studied the dynamic nature of biotic interactions and identified an evolutionary #TippingPoint: a gradual change in environmental conditions may lead to an abrupt breakdown of #mutualism to #antagonism, which can‘t be reversed by restoring the initial conditions. 🤯
#TheoreticalEcology
#EcologicalModelling
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2024.2326
