Publications by authors named "Yisheng Rong"
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- Some species, known as 'generalists,' thrive in a variety of habitats, while 'specialists' are adapted to specific environments, and their coexistence is maintained through complex interspecies interactions.
- The study aims to establish a theoretical framework for understanding how these generalist and specialist species coexist in ecosystems with both mutualistic and competitive relationships.
- Findings show that generalists are crucial for ecosystem stability, as their removal can lead to ecosystem collapse, while the loss of specialists typically does not have the same drastic effect.
The structural nestedness has important effects on the ecosystem's robustness, stability, and species diversity, but quantitative analysis tools are still lacking at present. According to the competitive and mutually beneficial interactions among ecosystems species, we designed a quantitative analysis tool of nestedness on ecosystems metrics by mapping the ecosystems into symbolic networks and calculating the network's competitive nestedness and mutualistic nestedness with an overlap metric, respectively. The results of the real system and network models show that in the competitive and mutualistic coupling network, the competitive nestedness reduces the biodiversity and robustness of the network, but the mutualistic nestedness has the opposite effect.
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