Obligate mutualism in an extended consumer-resource framework

Journal article

Abstract:: The development of a theory to underpin the obligate mutualist interactions that appear to be ubiquitous in nature has not proceeded at the same pace as the development of theory to support competition and predation. A constraint may be that obligate mutualism appears unable to be presented in the simple linear models that have so successfully served as heuristics for the other interactions. A number of simple nonlinear models have been used to propose explanations of obligate mutualism, but these solutions are often predicated on careful choices of functional forms. We present a theory of obligate mutualism in an explicit mass-conserving framework using simple models that are robust to choices of functional forms.

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Language:: English
Keywords:: obligate mutualism

conservative normal framework

FFR

extended consumer-resource framework

conservation of mass
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Deposit date:: 2019-04-05
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Copyright holder:: Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine
Notes:: © 2018, Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives License, which permits for noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any digital medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not altered in any way. The final version is available online from the Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine at: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6302623/

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