Making quantitative predictions on the yield of a species immersed in a multispecies community: The focal species method

Hugo Fort

Ecological Modelling, 2020, vol. 430, issue C

Abstract: The abundance or yield of a species is an ecological quantity of paramount importance when making management and conservation decisions. The linear generalized Lotka–Volterra equations (LGLVE) constitute the simplest theoretical framework for predicting such yields. However, in many ecological communities (e.g. tropical forests), the number of coexisting species S can be very large and estimating the entire interaction matrix A from experiments is practically unfeasible.

Keywords: Prediction of species yields; Quantitative ecology; Agroecology; Biomass forecasting; Community matrix (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2020.109108

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