Abstract
Ellner et al. (2020) state that identifying the mechanisms producing positive invasion growth rates (IGR) is useful in characterising species persistence. We agree about the importance of the sign of IGR as a binary indicator of persistence, but question whether its magnitude provides much information once the sign is given.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 1725-1726 |
Number of pages | 2 |
Journal | Ecology Letters |
Volume | 23 |
Issue number | 11 |
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State | Published - 1 Nov 2020 |
Keywords
- Coexistence
- environmental stochasticity
- invasibility
- lottery model
- mean growth rate
- mean time to extinction
- modern coexistence theory
- persistence
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics